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Article 68
 

Procedure for summarisation of voting results in electoral precinct


1. On the voting day, at 20:00, the chairperson of the precinct electoral commission shall announce about the end of the voting and prohibit the entry of electors into the voting room. The commission shall permit the electors present in the voting room to vote, after which the chairperson of the commission shall close the slot of the ballot box.


2. The precinct electoral commission shall start the sitting for summarisation of voting results. Besides the persons having the right to be present at the sitting of the electoral commission, the candidate shall also have the right to be present at that sitting.


The district electoral commission shall:


(1) pack the individual seals of the commission members, and the package shall be sealed and placed in the sack;
(2) count the total number of voting participants, based on the signatures of electors available in the list of electors.


If available, the following shall also be counted separately:


a. number of signatures available in the supplementary lists drawn up in the electoral precinct on the voting day;
b. number of signatures available in the supplementary lists of electors having participated in the voting through the mobile ballot box.
These figures shall be published and recorded in the registration book of the precinct electoral commission.
The chairperson of the commission shall immediately inform, through available means of communication, the district electoral commission on the total number of voting participants in the electoral precinct.


(3) where during the voting the technical equipment has worked without failures, a statement of information shall be printed by means of technical equipment during elections of the National Assembly, which includes, without indicating the number of the electoral precinct, the record number of electors, registered by means of technical equipment, in the list of electors of the relevant electoral precinct. The statement of information must contain an indication on the electors whose fingerprints were impossible to recognise during the registration, and the registration was carried out only on the basis of an identification document. In case of impossibility to print statement of information, a relevant record thereon shall be made in the registration book.


One proxy of each political party running in elections shall, upon request, be given one copy of the statement of information. One copy of the statement of information shall be glued to a blank sheet of paper, whereafter persons having the right to be present at the precinct electoral commission shall be provided with an opportunity to photograph it, after which the chairperson of the precinct electoral commission signs the statement of information and seals it with the seal of the commission. During the recount, this statement of information shall not be printed again, but the right to photograph it is preserved.
Proxies, observers, mass media representatives shall be given 30 minutes in total so that they randomly compare data of the statement of information with the list of electors having participated in the voting. Lists of electors and the statement of information shall be packed; the package shall be sealed and placed in the sack.


Where the registration book contains a record with regard to the impossibility to print the statement of information, the proxy of the political party running in elections who has been present at the electoral precinct on the voting day may, from 12:00 to 18:00 of the day following the voting day or, on the 2nd day following the voting, from 9:00 to 11:00, submit an application for getting acquainted with the lists of electors having participated in the voting, except for lists of electors drawn up in the military unit. Lists of electors having participated in the voting may be made available within the time limits prescribed by this Code for recounting activities in the presence of the chairperson or the secretary of the respective precinct electoral commission. Two hours shall be provided for getting acquainted with the list of each electoral precinct. The lists signed by electors having participated in the voting may not be photocopied, photographed and video-recorded.


The application for getting acquainted with the lists of electors having participated in the voting shall be submitted to the district electoral commission by the applicant personally which must contain the name, surname of the applicant, address for notices and the number of the electoral precinct the lists whereof are requested to be made available. Upon request to get acquainted with the lists of electors having participated in the voting of different electoral precincts, a separate application shall be submitted for each of them.


Where an application has been submitted simultaneously for recount and for getting acquainted with the lists of electors having participated in the voting, the process of getting acquainted with the lists shall be carried out during the recount. Only a proxy, who has submitted a relevant application, may get acquainted with the list of electors having participated in the voting. The district electoral commission shall reject the application for getting acquainted with the lists of electors having participated in the voting where it has been submitted in violation of the provisions of this part.


(4) one by one count voting passes, received from electors, printed by means of technical equipment and numbered, pack, seal the package and place in the sack;


(5) count the unused self-adhesive stamps, pack, seal the package and place in the sack.


(6) count the unused numbered voting passes, pack, seal the package and place in the sack. In case numbered voting passes are not used, they shall not be counted and the number of voting passes allocated by the district electoral commission shall be indicated;


(7) without counting, pack the unused ballot papers, submit to the district electoral commission, as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.


The results of these actions shall be published and recorded in the registration book of the precinct electoral commission.


3. where during the voting the technical equipment has worked without failures, a statement of information shall be printed by means of technical equipment during elections of the National Assembly, which includes the numbers of the district electoral commission and the electoral precinct, the record number of electors registered by means of technical equipment in the list of electors of the relevant electoral precinct.


The statement of information must contain an indication on the electors whose registration was carried out by inputting, using keyboard, the data on the identification document into the technical equipment. In case of impossibility to print the statement of information, a relevant record thereon shall be made in the registration book. One copy of the statement of information, signed by the chairperson of the precinct electoral commission and sealed with the seal of the commission, shall be placed in the sack. One copy of the statement of information, signed by the chairperson of the precinct electoral commission and sealed with the seal of the commission, shall, upon request, be provided to the candidates, the observers and one proxy of each political party running in elections, present at the sitting for summarisation.


The lists of electors (except for the signed lists of electors, being drawn up in a military unit, penitentiary institution and facility for holding arrestees) shall be packed, the package shall be sealed and signed by the chairperson and the secretary of the precinct electoral commission and be submitted to the district electoral commission as prescribed by part 9 of Article 71 of this Code. The signed lists of electors, being drawn up in a military unit, penitentiary institution and facility for holding arrestees, shall be packed separately, the package shall be sealed and placed in the sack.


4. During elections of Councils of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, as well as of head of community and member of the council of elders, the chairperson of the commission shall take one ballot envelope out of the ballot box, demonstrate it in such a way that it is visible to those present, take the ballot paper out of the ballot envelope and announce if the ballot paper is valid, invalid, or of non-established sample.


In case the ballot paper is valid, [he or she] shall also announce the candidate or the political party running in elections in favour of whom or which a vote has been cast.


Upon request, the ballot paper shall be transferred to other members of the commission. In case the member of the commission disagrees with the statement of the chairperson of the commission, he or she shall raise an objection. Where the objection is raised, the proposal of the member of the commission is put to voting in accordance with the decision on accepting the objection, and where the objection is not adopted or where there is no objection, the ballot paper shall, pursuant to the statement of the chairperson of the commission, be put in the pile of ballot papers cast in favour of the political party running in elections or of the candidate, in case one candidate is voted on — in the pile of the ballot papers cast for or against the candidate, or in the pile of invalid ballot papers, after which the next envelope shall be taken out of the ballot box. This action shall be repeated in relation to all the envelopes in the ballot box.


The ballot papers cast in favour of political parties running in elections, candidates, and the invalid ballot papers shall be sorted separately.
After the ballot papers voted on have been sorted and counted, the results shall be announced out loud and recorded in the registration book of the precinct electoral commission.


5. During the sorting of ballot papers, commission members shall be prohibited from making any notes, as well as having with them any pens, pencils or other items for making notes.


6. In case more than one ballot paper is found in a ballot envelope, only the established sample ballot paper shall be considered in the counting.


In case the ballot envelope contains an additional writing, the ballot paper shall not be taken out of the envelope, the ballot envelope together with the ballot paper therein shall be immediately cancelled.


7. The non-established sample ballot papers shall not be considered and counted when summarising the results.


8. The counted and sorted ballot papers shall be packed as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission, and the packages shall be sealed and placed in the sack.


The packages must bear the signature of the chairperson of the commission. The other commission members and proxies shall also have the right to sign the packages. The names and surnames of the signatories shall be entered, and samples of the signature shall be put in the register.


9. In case elections for head of community and member of the council of elders are held simultaneously, the voting results of the community council of elders shall be summarised first.


(Article 68 supplemented, amended by HO-119-N of 30 June 2016, amended by HO-158-N of 20 October 2016)
(Amendments to Article 68 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)