The June 2016 Joint Opinion recommended taking steps to increase the transparency and availability of signed voter lists for the candidates or their proxies to control. According to draft Article 14.2, voter lists will be published by electoral precincts on the internet 40 days before election day or 20 days in case of an early election. According to Article 14.6, signed voters’ lists will be available on a designated website until final election result is ready, or in case of complaints, until a final judicial decision is pronounced. However, it is not clear from the amendments and the explanatory note which measures will be implemented in order to guarantee the secrecy of the vote when the signed voter lists are publicly available. The Code of good practice in electoral matters considers abstention as a political choice and recommends that voters lists should not be published if the secrecy of that choice can be breached. Furthermore, the Interpretative Declaration to the Code of good practice in electoral matters recommends that “[s]uch access to the list of voters having voted should be meaningful, should be granted for a sufficient period of time and should take place under controlled conditions.” In their first Joint Opinion on the draft Electoral Code of Armenia, the ODIHR and the Venice Commission recommended reviewing a similar provision in order to ensure data protection and secrecy of the vote. During the meetings with the stakeholders, the delegation learned that there was a broad support of the publication of the signed voter lists. The interlocutors met perceived this measure as an effective way to fight electoral fraud due to inflated voter lists and were of the opinion that they ensure greater transparency in elections. Based on the consensus observed on the matter and the necessity to increase trust in voter registers in Armenia, the Venice Commission and the ODIHR acknowledge that publishing the signed voter lists can participate in the overall transparency of the electoral process, provided that this measure remains strictly temporary and preferably limited to the next elections. Thereafter, improving the accuracy and integrity of the voter lists should be highly prioritised by the electoral authorities. Such temporary measures should then be revised in the near future when other guarantees less restrictive of fundamental rights (such as the requirement of identity cards for voters) will be fully implemented.