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Article 60
 

Seal, individual seal of the member of precinct electoral commission, ballot box, technical equipment


1. Samples of the seals of electoral commissions and of the individual seals of members of precinct electoral commission shall be approved by the Central Electoral Commission. They shall be prepared upon the order by the Central Electoral Commission.


2. The seal of a precinct electoral commission must bear a 4-digit number.


3. The precinct electoral commission shall be provided with technical equipment for registration of electors.


The technical equipment must contain the electronic list of electors. The technical equipment must be furnished with software for registering the voting participants, excluding their double registration and other type of software prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission. At least 30 days before the voting for elections of the National Assembly, the technical equipment software must be accessible to representatives of political parties running in elections for conducting technical audit. Preparation of the electronic list of electors for instalment in the technical equipment shall be subject to oversight by representatives of political parties running in elections of the National Assembly. Technical audit and oversight over the preparation of the electronic list shall be organised as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.


For the purpose of ensuring maintenance of the technical equipment in precinct electoral commissions, the Central Electoral Commission shall — for each precinct electoral commission — engage up to 4 specialists, on a contractual basis.


A person who meets the requirements prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission for professional knowledge and job skills, has command of the Armenian language, has attained the age of 18 may be a specialist ensuring maintenance of the technical equipment. Public servants may be engaged as specialists as well. The procedure for the selection, training and testing of professional knowledge and job skills of specialist maintaining the technical equipment shall be prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.


Remuneration of the specialist shall be established in the amount of 120 per cent of the nominal amount of the minimum monthly salary prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia. Remuneration shall be made after the summarisation of election results.


4. The Central Electoral Commission shall transfer seals of precinct electoral commissions to district electoral commissions no earlier than 5 days and no later than 3 days before the voting day in such a way that each electoral precinct is provided with one seal, carrying out solely quantitative counting of the transferred seals.


5. The district electoral commission shall transfer the seal to chairpersons of precinct electoral commissions on the day preceding the voting, each chairperson shall get one seal. The district electoral commission shall, in the quantity established by the Central Electoral Commission, transfer technical equipment (with downloaded electoral lists of electors) to chairpersons of precinct electoral commissions on the day preceding the voting. The procedure for using more than one technical equipment in the precinct electoral commission shall be prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.


6. The seals of precinct electoral commissions shall be submitted to the Central Electoral Commission within a 3-day period after the end of voting.


In case of holding a second round of election, repeat voting or a new regular or a new election, new seals shall be provided to precinct electoral commissions.


7. Members of precinct electoral commissions shall be provided with distinctive individual seals on the day preceding the voting, by drawing of lots. After the end of voting, individual seals shall be packed and placed in the sack.


8. At least one ballot box shall be allocated to each precinct electoral commission. More than one ballot box may be used in a precinct electoral commission as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.