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Article 8
 

Website of the Central Electoral Commission



1. The website of the Central Electoral Commission shall be the following: www.elections.am. The website of the Central Electoral Commission (hereinafter also referred to as “the website of the Commission”) shall contain information on the activities of both the Central Electoral Commission and the constituency electoral commissions, including information on the timetable and agenda of sessions, live broadcast of sessions, video recordings and decisions. The information shall be posted on the website of the Central Electoral Commission in an open dataset and accessible format.  


The website of the Commission shall also be used for publishing information on elections, nominating and registering candidates, political parties (alliances of political parties), accrediting observers, mass media representatives, as well as registering members of precinct electoral commissions.  




2.When registering on the website of the Commission, political parties (alliances of political parties), non-governmental organisations, mass media shall obtain from the Central Electoral Commission permanent user accounts through which they may carry out further registrations. User accounts of candidates nominated under the majoritarian electoral system shall operate only until the official publication of relevant election results.  




3.The website of the Commission shall contain a pre-voting tool, which provides an opportunity to the political party (alliances of political parties) to use it for participatory formation of the pre-electoral listin case of elections of National Assembly and elections of councils of elders of communities held under the proportional electoral system. Formation of an electoral list by means of pre-voting tool shall be voluntary and shall not replace the procedure for approval of electoral list prescribed by the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Armenia “On political parties”. The Central Electoral Commission shall prescribe the technical description and the procedure for use of the pre-voting tool. Data confidentiality of persons having participated in voting shall be ensured during the voting process, including for the Central Electoral Commission. 





4.Factions represented at the National Assembly, constituency electoral commissions shall register their candidates for membership of the precinct electoral commission and participants of professional courses through the website of the Commission. Citizens may also register for participation in the professional courses independently through the website of the Commission or on the basis of an application submitted in hard copy.  




5.Data entered in the website of the Commission for accreditation or nomination shall be automatically compared with each other and with other data available on the website of the Commission, to exclude registration of a person with incompatible status.  




6.The technical description of the website of the Commission, the procedure for its maintenance, the list of data subject to publication and the electronic templates applied shall be prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.