Rights, responsibilities and guarantees for activities of a proxy

1. A proxy shall have the right to:

(1) participate, in an advisory capacity, in the sittings of a commission, be present in the voting room during the voting;
(2) get acquainted with election related documents under the disposal of the Central Electoral Commission, district electoral commission and independently make extracts, receive copies of the documents which are not posted on the website of the Central Electoral Commission;
(3) get acquainted — in the presence of the chairperson, secretary of the precinct electoral commission or one of the members of the commission as assigned by the chairperson of the commission — with election related documents under the disposal of the precinct electoral commission (except for lists of persons having participated in the voting, during the voting), relevant court judgments, the relevant statement of information provided to the elector by the authorised body, , as well as ballot papers voted on and marks made thereon. Not intervening in the activities of the electoral commission and not hindering the voting process, independently make extracts and notes from election related documents (except for lists of electors having participated in the voting, voting passes), during the recount of voting results, independently make extracts from lists of electors having participated in the voting. During the voting, it shall be prohibited to make extracts and notes from the lists of persons having participated in the voting and from the voting passes;
(4) in the manner and cases prescribed by this Code, appeal against the decisions, actions, omission of the electoral commissions;
(5) observe, as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission, the processes of printing, transportation, keeping and counting of ballot papers and self-adhesive stamps;
(6) be present — without intervening in the activities of the member of commission and the person maintaining the technical equipment (hereinafter referred to as “the specialist”) — near the commission members, identifying the electors, providing a ballot paper and a ballot envelope, and the specialist, the member controlling the ballot box, as well as observe their activities;
(7) submit observations and recommendations to the chairperson of the commission with regard to activities of the electoral commission;
(8) exercise other rights reserved thereto by this Code.
2. A proxy shall exercise his or her rights as prescribed by this Code.

Proxies shall not have the right to intervene in the activities of an electoral commission, to give instructions to members of the electoral commission, to intervene in the process of voting.

3. One proxy of each candidate for head of community and member of council of elders and one proxy of each political party running in elections may be present at the sitting of the electoral commission and in a voting room during the voting. During elections of the National Assembly up to 2 proxies of each political party running in elections may be present at the sitting of the electoral commission and in a voting room during the voting.

Candidates included in the electoral list of political parties, running in elections of the National Assembly, Councils of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor may not have proxies.

Proxies shall be obliged to register in the registration book of the electoral commission for being present at the sittings of the electoral commission, as well as during the voting, in the voting room.

4. No limitation of the rights of proxy prescribed by this Code shall be allowed. No one (including electoral commissions) shall have the right to remove the proxy from the voting room or otherwise exclude him or her from the activities of the commission, except for cases where he or she violates the requirements of this Code in such a way that essentially hinders the smooth operation of the electoral commission or the smooth voting process. The chairperson of the electoral commission may remove the proxy from the sitting of the commission and from the polling station on the voting day, upon a decision adopted by at least 2/3 of the votes of the total number of members of the electoral commission. Where the chairperson of the commission asks a proxy to leave the polling station or the sittings of the commission, a relevant entry shall be made in the registration book of the electoral commission, indicating the reasons.

(Article 34 amended, edited by HO-158-N of 20 October 2016)
(Amendments to Article 34 shall be applied upon the entry into force of the Law of HO-158-N of 20 October 2016, starting from the first round of election of the National Assembly)