3.For the purpose of ensuring publicity and transparency of organising and holding elections, raising the level of public awareness, ensuring security, protection and smooth operation of the website of the Central Electoral Commission, the “Elections” automated system, and properly exercising the powers vested in electoral commissions by this Code, relevant electoral commissions shall be provided with necessary software, hardware and communication means, equipment and property.  

4.Political parties (alliances of political parties) running in elections of the National Assembly and in elections of community councils of elders held through the proportional electoral system may publish their election programmes on the website of the Central Electoral Commission. Political parties (alliances of political parties) running in elections of the National Assembly may also publish the structure and the composition of the Government of the Republic of Armenia proposed thereby on the website of the Central Electoral Commission.  

5.Candidates shall, within 5 days following the expiry of the time limit prescribed by this Code for registration, submit a declaration of their property and income to the relevant electoral commission. 

Within 5 days following the expiry of the time limit prescribed by this Code for registration of electoral lists of political parties running in elections, the political parties (alliances of political parties) running in elections shall submit a declaration of property and income of the political party (political parties included in the alliance of political parties) to the Central Electoral Commission. 

The declaration shall include the composition of property as of 1st of the month of submitting the documents for registration prescribed by this Code, as well as income obtained during 12 calendar months preceding the month of the time limit for submitting the documents for registration. 

The forms (electronic forms) of declarations and the procedure for submission thereof shall be prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission. 

6.Declarations of political parties (political parties included in the alliances of political parties) running in elections and declarations of the candidates shall be submitted electronically and posted on the website of the Commission.  

7.During elections of the National Assembly, the state administration body authorised by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, maintaining the State Population Register of the Republic of Armenia (hereinafter referred to as “the authorised body”) shall — on the 30th, 20th and 10th day preceding the voting day — publish the total number of electors included in the Register of Electors of the Republic of Armenia, indicating also the number of electors voting by place of location and electors having no registration. During elections of the National Assembly, the authorised body shall, on the day preceding the voting, publish the total number of electors included in the Register of Electors of the Republic of Armenia, indicating also the total number of electors voting by place of location, electors having no registration, police officers seconded to electoral precincts, electors in a medical institution providing inpatient treatment. 

8.Electors shall, as prescribed by this Code, be informed of compositions, locations, working hours of electoral commissions, the time limits for submission of applications on inaccuracies in the lists of electors, the nomination of candidates and the time limits for registration, the day, venue, time of voting, as well as the results of voting and election. 

The Central Electoral Commission shall, within 7 days following the calling of elections of the local self-government bodies, promulgate information on public radio and public television on the election of local self-government body, on the community where the elections are held, the time limits for submission of applications on inaccuracies in the lists of electors, time limits for nomination of candidates and registration thereof, as well as on the voting day. In case of elections of local self-government bodies, the Central Electoral Commission shall also, within a period of7-days following calling of elections, post on its website the schedule of elections of local self-government bodies, and the schedule of early elections — in case of holding early elections.  

9.On the voting day, by 11:30, 14:30, 17:30 and 20:30, precinct electoral commissions shall be obliged to communicate to the constituency electoral commission the number of electors having participated in the voting at the given electoral precinct as of 11:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00, respectively. Constituency electoral commissions shall summarise, publish and communicate such data to the Central Electoral Commission with the same interval. During elections of the National Assembly, the Central Electoral Commission shall, on the voting day at 9:00, publish information on the progress of elections, and starting from 12:00 to 21:00 it shall publish, every 3 hours, information on the number of electors having participated in the voting as of the previous hour, by marzes, marz centres, communities having more than 10 000 electors and the city of Yerevan. After the information on the number of electors having participated in the voting is published, it shall be posted on the website of the Commission, by electoral precincts. 

During elections of the National Assembly, the Central Electoral Commission shall publish the data referred to in this part by live broadcasting on public radio and public television, from the seat of the Central Electoral Commission. 

10.During elections of the National Assembly, the Council of Elders of Yerevan, the Central Electoral Commission shall — no later than the day following the voting, starting at 00:00 — carry out tabulation of voting results by electoral precincts and service areas of constituency electoral commissions. The Central Electoral Commission shall finalise the tabulation of preliminary voting results and shall post them on the website of the Commission, with the possibility to download, no later than within one hour following the receipt of the latest information from the electoral precinct on the voting results, but no later than within 24 hours following the end of the voting. The Central Electoral Commission shall — no later than 36 hours after the end of voting —post the scanned extracts of the records of the voting results of electoral precincts on the website of the Commission, with the possibility to download.  

During elections of the National Assembly, the Council of Elders of Yerevan, the Central Electoral Commission shall — following the adoption of the decision based on election results, but no later than within one hour after the end of the sitting — post the final tabulation of voting results by electoral precincts and service areas of constituency electoral commissions on the website of the Commission with the possibility to download. 

11.Proxies, observers, visitors, mass media representatives and — upon consent or assignment of the chairperson of the higher level commission — members of the higher level electoral commission shall have the right, as prescribed by this Code, to be present at the sittings of electoral commissions, as well as in the voting room during the entire voting process. Proxies, observers, visitors, mass media representatives may photograph and videotape the sittings of electoral commissions (including the sitting for summarisation of the voting results), as well as the voting process without violating the right of electors to secrecy of voting. 

11.1.During the elections of the National Assemblyand of Councils of Elders of communities held under the proportional electoral system, the specialised organisation, selected as a result of a competition held as prescribed by the Government,shall carry out the video recording, from electoral precincts, of the voting process and of the process of summarisation of voting results, as well as a simultaneous webcast, in real time, via website(s) specifically created for that purpose. The Government shall conclude a relevant contract with the specialised organisation, which stipulates also the procedure and conditions for video recording, from electoral precincts, of the voting process and of the process of summarisation of voting results, and those for simultaneous webcast, as prescribed by this part, as well as stipulates the list of precincts. Real time and the number of the polling station must be visible on the video footage during the broadcast. 

The video shall be recorded by means of fixed cameras. The ballot box, the processes of registration of electors and allocation of ballot envelopes and ballot papers and of summarisation of the voting results must be in the field of view of the cameras. Video recording and webcast shall be carried out in observance of the principle of secrecy of voting prescribed by this Code. 

Sessions of the constituency electoral commission and the recount shall also be video-recorded and broadcast by a specialised organisation selected in a prescribed manner. Real time and the number of the constituency electoral commission must be visible on the video footage during the broadcast.  

The person possessing the premises of a polling station, and electoral commissions shall be obliged to assist the specialised organisation in organising the process of video recording and webcasting; however, they shall not be responsible for organisation of the process and the quality thereof. 

Materials video-recorded at the electoral precinct and the constituency electoral commission by a specialised organisation shall remain accessible on the relevant website of the specialised organisation until the official publication of the results of elections. The contract concluded with the organisation may provide for a longer time period. Within the scope of cases relating to protection of suffrage, copies of video-recorded materialsmaybe provided, upon a written application, to electoral commissions, political parties running in elections and organisations having carried out observation mission, on condition of paying the cost of photocopying. The application must contain the number of the electoral precinct from which the copy of the video-recorded materials is requested, and electronic mediumcomplying with the requirements prescribed by the specialised organisation, must be submitted along with the application. 

The video-recorded materials shall be archived by the specialised organisation and maintained in the manner prescribed for maintenance of election-related documents. 

12.Both the general number of electors registered in military units and the number of those registered by electoral precincts, the numbers and locations of the electoral precincts where electors included in lists of electors drawn up in military units vote, lists of electors being drawn up in military units shall not be subject to publication, extracts therefrom shall not be made. 

13.The Central Electoral Commission shall —no later than four days after the end of voting, on the basis of data of electors registered by means of technical equipment — add information on participation of an elector in the Register of Electors provided for by part 4 of Article 9 of this Code, which shall be kept until the expiry of the time limit prescribed by this Code for summarisation of the voting results, whereas in case of challenging the decision of the electoral commission through judicial procedure — until the entry into force of the judicial act.