§ Article 68(untitled)

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:

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 (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

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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

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 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 operated without failures, a

 statement of information shall be printed by means of technical equipment

 during elections of the National Assembly; the information shall contain the

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 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 place of confinement of 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 place of confinement of 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

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 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.

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 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 entry into force of Law
 HO-158-N of 20 October 2016, starting from the first round of election of
 the National Assembly)