of February 17, 1999 No. ZR-284
Accepted on February 5, 1999
1. According to article 3 of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia election of the president of the Republic of Armenia, elections to National Assembly and local government bodies of the Republic of Armenia are held on the basis of general, equal, direct suffrage, by secret vote.
2. The citizens of the Republic of Armenia having the voting rights participate in elections directly, free declaration of will, on voluntary basis.
3. The state promotes elections of the President of the Republic, elections to National Assembly, local government bodies of the Republic of Armenia on the principles of competitiveness and alternativeness.
4. The state, within the powers allocated for them state bodies, local self-government, bodies and the officials creating Central Election Commission bear responsibility for legality of preparation, the organization, elections.
5. Elections in the Republic of Armenia are held only in the territory of the Republic of Armenia.
1. The Republic of Armenia has the right to choose the citizens of the Republic of Armenia who reached 18 years, and in case of elections to local government bodies - each person which also reached 18 years having the status of the refugee in the Republic of Armenia or specified in the certificate of family of the refugee issued in accordance with the established procedure.
In case of elections to the local government bodies of the right and obligations provided by this Code for citizens of the Republic of Armenia extend also to the persons having the voting rights having the status of the refugee or specified in the certificate of family of the refugee issued in accordance with the established procedure.
2. Ceased to be valid.
3. The voting right of citizens is regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia and this Code.
4. Disabled people, and also the voters who are finding it difficult to participate in vote are in the local center and participate in the vote according to the procedure established by Central Election Commission.
5. The citizens recognized by a court decision incapacitated, and equally in convicts to imprisonment and serving sentence according to the court verdict which took legal effect cannot choose and be elected.
6. The citizens who are considered as the military personnel, being on military service or passing training camps cannot participate in elections to local government bodies and to National Assembly on majority electoral system.
7. The citizens who are citizens of the Republic of Armenia and at the same time other state and staying on the registry in the Republic of Armenia participate in the vote during elections according to the procedure established by this Code.
The citizens who are citizens of the Republic of Armenia and at the same time other state and not staying on the registry in the Republic of Armenia during elections do not participate in vote.
The citizens having the voting rights have the right to choose and be elected regardless of nationality, race, floor, language, religion, political or different views, social origin, property or other status.
Any restriction of the voting right on these bases is pursued under the law.
1. Citizens participate in elections on an equal basis.
2. The state provides equal conditions for realization of the voting right of citizens.
The president of the Republic, deputies of National Assembly, local government bodies are elected directly. The mediated vote is forbidden.
Vote on elections is secret. Control of free declaration of will of voting is forbidden and pursued under the law.
1. Elections are prepared and carried out publicly.
2. The decisions of the electoral commissions, state bodies and local government bodies concerning preparation and elections are published in official seal within 3 days after their acceptance.
3. The chairman of the electoral commission according to the procedure, established by this Code, provides participation of authorized representatives, observers and representatives of mass media in work of the electoral commissions to holding meetings of the electoral commissions and vote, provides for them necessary and equal working conditions.
4. In case of election of the president of the Republic of Armenia and elections to National Assembly the Central Election Commission a day before the ballot day publishes total number of the voters included in the Register of voters of the Republic of Armenia.
5. Citizens according to the procedure, established by this Code, are informed on structure, the location, working hours of the electoral commissions, formation of the polling precincts to the local centers, submission due date of assignments of error in electoral registers, promotion, registration of candidates, ballot day and results of elections.
6. Precinct election commissions in ballot day shall report with three-hour frequency in district electoral commission data on number of the voters who took part in vote. Regional electoral commissions generalize, publish the specified data and with three-hour frequency report them in Central Election Commission. The Central Election Commission in case of nation-wide elections (nation-wide election of the president of the Republic, elections to National Assembly on pro rata electoral system are considered) to the voting day, at 9:00 o'clock, publishes data on the course of elections, and since 12:00 hours and till 21:00 o'clock, with three-hour frequency publishes the information about number of the voters who took part in elections till the last o'clock and also about the arrived claims. Final data on number of the voters who took part in elections, Central Election Commission officially publishes next day, at 12:00 o'clock.
7. At meetings of the electoral commissions, and also during all vote in the local center have the right to be present authorized representatives of candidates, accredited observers, representatives of mass media.
8. In cases, stipulated in Item the 6th this Article, the Central Election Commission publishes data in live radio-and TV broadcast of Public radio of Armenia and Public TV company of Armenia.
1. Expenses on preparation and elections (including training of members of the commissions, the notice of voters, creation and maintaining electoral registers) are made at the expense of means of the government budget.
2. The procedure for expenditure of means and their compensation during election propaganda of candidates is established by this Code.
1. The electoral register of the Republic of Armenia is constituted and kept by Police of the Republic of Armenia under the Government of the Republic of Armenia, performing accounting of citizens at the place of residence (further authorized body).
2. The electoral register is the document of permanent maintaining for which compliance the authorized body is responsible requirements of this Code.
3. The authorized body constitutes and keeps the electoral register of the Republic of Armenia on areas and municipalities in the form of one general list, namely the Register of voters of the Republic of Armenia (The national book of registration of voters).
4. Heads of municipalities, relevant divisions of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia, the bodies performing civil registration, and the organizations having power on detention for creation and maintaining the electoral register provide to authorized body the necessary information.
5. In the cases and procedure established by this Code, electoral registers are constituted also by heads of the organizations having power on detention and military units of the Republic of Armenia.
6. The authorized body two times a year, in May and December, represents electronic version of the Register of voters of the Republic of Armenia to Central Election Commission.
1. The electoral register of the Republic of Armenia joins persons having the right to elect 2 of this Code according to Article.
2. The same person can be included in the electoral register only of one municipality and only once.
3. Join in the electoral register of municipality all having right to choose the citizens considered in this municipality, and also citizens, temporarily or constantly living in this municipality and not staying on the registry, and in case of nation-wide elections and the citizens considered in other municipality who not later than 5 days till ballot day according to the procedure, established by Central Election Commission, submit to authorized body or its division the request about their inclusion in the electoral register. The citizens staying on the registry in other municipality represent also the reference the established Central Election Commission of form of the fact that they are not included in the electoral register in the place of accounting. The citizens who are not staying on the registry join in the electoral register based on the certificate of the residence.
4. Electoral registers, constituted in case of elections to local government bodies, in accordance with general practice join everyone who has the right to choose in case of elections to local government bodies.
5. The military personnel (citizens) who are on compulsory military service or passing training camps in case of temporary upolneniye from service in the procedure established by the legislation can be included in the electoral register in the place of their permanent residence when giving according to the procedure, stipulated in Item 3 of this Code, requests for inclusion in the electoral register.
6. Ceased to be valid.
7. Ceased to be valid.
8. In case of nation-wide elections the military personnel of conscription service, the military personnel living in the territory of arrangement of military units and the members of their families having the right to choose the citizens passing training camps join in the electoral register of the relevant military unit.
9. In case of nation-wide elections heads of the relevant military units not later than 45 days till ballot day represent to the head of the relevant municipality, authorized body and to district electoral commission number of the voters considered in military units.
10. The military personnel living outside military unit joins in the electoral register in accordance with general practice.
11. Electoral registers, being in custody, are constituted in 3 days prior to vote by the head of this organization with the assistance of the member of district electoral commission. In case of the elections to National Assembly on majority electoral system in the electoral register which are in custody only the citizens staying on the registry in municipalities of this constituency join.
1. Electoral registers are constituted to addresses of the place of accounting of citizens.
2. In the electoral register the name of area and municipality, and in certain graphs the following data about having right to choose the citizen is specified:
1) sequence number in the electoral register;
2) surname, name, middle name (the middle name is specified only in that case when the middle name is written down in the passport of this voter);
3) number, month and year of birth;
4) the address of the place of accounting or the residential address if it is registered in other municipality or does not stay on the registry.
3. In the electoral registers issued to precinct election commissions, the numbering specified in the subitem 1 of Item 2 of this Article is made on sites, on each leaf of lists also number of the polling precinct is specified, two additional columns for series, the document number proving the voter's identity and for its signature are provided.
4. In case of simultaneous carrying out votes in case of more than one elections (The president of the Republic of Armenia, in National Assembly, in local government bodies and on referendum) for each vote the separate column of the signature of the citizen is provided.
5. Electoral registers are constituted in the form of magazines and numbered on number of voters to 1000 people. Each page of the electoral register is signed and certified seal by the head of the relevant division of authorized body.
1. The head of authorized body or its relevant division not later than 40 days till ballot day provides to the chairman of the relevant district electoral commission, and also heads of organizations under which authority premises of the relevant local centers, in one copy electoral registers on sites for posting in the local center are.
2. Final electoral registers on sites and the addresses of residential buildings (houses) included in the site, printed in 2 ekzkmplyara and also on the electronic medium not later than 2 days till ballot day are provided to chairmen of the respective precinct election commissions by the head of authorized body or its relevant division.
3. In 3 days prior to ballot day the electoral registers constituted in military units are provided by the head of military unit to the chairman of the relevant district electoral commission in sealed envelope which is opened only in ballot day in the precinct election commission.
4. The heads of organizations having power on detention in 2 days prior to ballot day transfer the electoral register to chairmen of the precinct election commissions formed at them.
1. The electoral register of the Republic of Armenia, except for the electoral registers constituted in military units, in organizations of detention and signed by voters, is open for acquaintance.
The lists constituted in military units, organizations of detention and signed by voters are not subject to publication, copies are not made of them.
2. The electoral register of the Republic of Armenia is located with authorized body on the Internet.
3. Each citizen in three-day time after the address has the right for a fee, established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, to receive from authorized body or its division electoral registers of the relevant municipality, and in case of elections and electoral registers of the site on electronic media or on paper.
4. The head of organization under which authority the territory of the local center is in 40 days prior to vote hangs out one copy of electoral registers in the local center on the place, visible to all.
5. In the local center together with electoral registers also the certificate of terms, the place of filing of applications of abnormalities in these lists, about procedure, time and conditions of their consideration is surely hung out.
6. The final electoral register in 2 days prior to ballot day is hung out by the chairman of the precinct election commission in the local center on the place, visible to all. These lists remain hung out in the local center about day of the termination of powers of the precinct election commission.
7. In 10 days prior to vote the electoral registers constituted in military units are hung out in military units on the place, visible to the military personnel.
8. The authorized body or its relevant division send to voters of the notice on ballot day, the place and time of vote.
1. Everyone not later than 7 days till ballot day has the right to submit to the head of municipality, and not later than 5 days till ballot day and to the head of authorized body or its relevant division the statement for availability of abnormalities in the electoral register, about its inclusion in the electoral register or exception of the electoral register.
2. Within 2 days after receipt of the statement the head of municipality submits to the head of the relevant division of authorized body the application together with the written opinion on the matter.
3. Within one day after receipt of the statement the head of authorized body or its relevant division in the presence of the good causes established by this Code enters necessary changes or corrections in the electoral register, having informed on it the applicant in writing.
4. The head of the relevant division of authorized body reports to authorized body data on the changes entered in electoral registers for entering of necessary changes or corrections into the Register of voters of the Republic of Armenia.
5. Disputes on abnormalities in electoral registers can be resolved in court. The court in three-day time passes the decision which is final and is not subject to protest.
6. Within five days before vote and in ballot day decisions according to statements for inclusion in electoral registers are passed in such terms that the voter had opportunity to participate in vote.
7. Based on the decisions on inclusion in the electoral register passed within five days before vote and in ballot day, the respective precinct election commission in ballot day enters in electoral registers amendments by creation of additional lists according to the procedure, stipulated in Clause 141 of this Code.
8. The electoral commissions have no right on own initiative to enter any changes, corrections or amendments in electoral registers, including in additional lists.
1. The precinct election commission according to the procedure, established by this Code, constitutes the additional list of voters.
2. The additional list of voters of the site joins the citizens who showed the judgments according to Item 6 of article 14 of this Code.
3. Additional lists of voters are constituted according to stipulated in Clause the 11th requirements of this Code to the electoral registers issued for vote to precinct election commissions with addition of one column for specifying of number, number, month and year of the judgment about inclusion of person in the electoral register.
4. Each page of additional lists of izibratel is signed and sealed by the chairman of the precinct election commission, and after vote the commission chairman at the end of the list specifies total number of the voters included in the additional list. The documents which are the basis for inclusion of the citizen in the additional list of voters are attached to the additional list.
1. For the purpose of the organization of vote and counting of votes the polling precincts with numbering according to the procedure of the sequence are formed.
2. The authorized body or its relevant territorial subdivision with participation of heads of municipalities and the representative of district electoral commission not later than 45 days before vote forms the polling precincts taking into account local and other conditions, aiming at creation of optimum conditions for implementation by voters of the voting right.
3. No later than chem in 45 days prior to ballot day commanders of the military units located at least for 50 kilometers from the next settlement represent to the head of authorized body or its relevant territorial subdivision number of the voters considered in military units.
4. At least in 45 days prior to ballot day, except for elections to local government bodies and to National Assembly on majority electoral system, the local centers according to the procedure, established by Central Election Commission, are formed as well in the organizations having power on detention.
5. The polling precincts in 40 days prior to ballot day are formed in the military units located at least for 50 kilometers from the next settlement. These sites are formed by commanders of military units.
6. The polling precinct includes no more than 2000 voters.
7. The polling precinct cannot include settlements of different municipalities.
1. On the polling precinct the local center is formed.
2. The local centers are formed in the buildings occupied with organizations of preschool education, education, the science, culture, sport and other spheres which are under authority of state bodies or local government bodies.
3. The local center cannot be formed in the buildings occupied with state bodies and local government bodies, military educational institutions, army connections and healthcare institutions. The local centers can be formed in the military units located at least for 50 kilometers from the next polling precinct, the organizations having power on detention.
4. The local center shall be located whenever possible close from the residential buildings and houses which are on the polling precinct.
5. For ensuring availability of implementation by disabled people of the voting right local government bodies perform necessary actions in the local centers.
1. The head of municipality not later than 45 days before vote forms the local center.
2. In case of impossibility of carrying out vote in the local center the head of municipality, upon the demand of the chairman of the precinct election commission, not later than 3 days till ballot day, and in exceptional cases (natural disaster, accident, the fire) as well in ballot day and within 2 days preceding it, with the consent of the chairman of the relevant district electoral commission, changes the location of the local center.
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The document ceased to be valid according to the Electoral code of the Republic of Armenia of June 14, 2011 No. ZR-164