§ Article 8(untitled)

Publicity of elections

1. Preparations for and holding of elections shall be public.

2. Secondary regulatory legal acts of the Central Electoral Commission shall be

 published and enter into force as prescribed by the Law of the Republic of

 Armenia “On legal acts”.

 Secondary regulatory legal acts of the Central Electoral Commission shall be

 posted on the website of the Central Electoral Commission by the end of the day

 following their state registration and filing with the Central Electoral Commission,

 and during the period of elections of the National Assembly — on the same day.

 Individual legal acts of the Central Electoral Commission shall enter into force in

 the manner and the time limits prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia

 “On legal acts”, except for cases prescribed by this Code. These acts shall be

 posted on the website of the Central Electoral Commission by the end of the day

 following the adoption thereof.

 The website of the Central Electoral Commission shall be the following:

 www.elections.am.

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 and the “Elections” automated system, and properly exercising the

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 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, the Councils of Elders of the city of Yerevan (hereinafter referred to
 as “Yerevan”), the city of Gyumri (hereinafter referred to as “Gyumri”), the city
 of Vanadzor (hereinafter referred to as “Vanadzor”) may submit their election
 programmes in the electronic format prescribed by the Central Electoral
 Commission for the purpose of posting them on the website of the Commission.
 The Central Electoral Commission shall post these programmes on the website by
 the end of the next working day following their submission, but no later than the
 official start of the election campaign.

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 shall, within a 3-day period after being

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 submitted, be posted on the website of the Commission. Carbon copies of

 declarations of candidates shall, on the basis of a written application, be provided

 to proxies, mass media representatives, observers.

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 by

 place of residence 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 by place of

 residence, 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.

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 district 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. District 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

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 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 electoral districts,

 Marz centres and electoral district 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,

 service areas of district electoral commissions and electoral districts. 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.

 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, service

 areas of district electoral commissions and electoral districts 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

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 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 Assembly, the Central Electoral Commission

 shall allow the specialised organisation — selected as a result of a competition

 held as prescribed by the Government — to video record, from all electoral

 precincts, the voting process and the process of summarisation of voting results,

 as well as to concurrently webcast, in real time, via website(s) specifically created

 for that purpose.

 The video shall be recorded by means of fixed cameras. The ballot box, the

 polling station and its entrance, with a radius of up to 50 metres, as well as 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.

 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.

 The specialised organisation shall, on the basis of a written application, provide

 copies of materials video-recorded at an electoral precinct to electoral

 commissions, political parties running in elections and organisations having

 carried out observation mission, under the condition of payment of the cost price

 for copying. The application may be submitted before the expiry of time limits

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 prescribed for challenging the decision of the Central Electoral Commission on

 election of the National Assembly, and in case of challenging that decision,

 before the adoption of a decision by the Constitutional Court. The application

 must contain the number of the electoral precinct from which the copy of the

 video-recorded materials is requested, and electronic media complying 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 the electors included in the lists of electors being

 drawn up in military units, lists of electors being drawn up in military units shall

 not be subject to publication, extracts therefrom shall not be made.

 (Article 8 supplemented by HO-158-N of 20 October 2016)

 (Amendments to Article 8 shall be applied upon entry into force of Law
 HO-158-N of 20 October 2016, starting from the first round of election
 of the National Assembly)

 CHAPTER 2

 LISTS OF ELECTORS