Actions of district electoral commission after receiving the protocols of precinct electoral commissions

1. The district electoral commission shall check the validity of drawing up the protocols on the voting results in electoral precincts, in case of arithmetic errors, the chairperson or the secretary of the precinct electoral commission shall correct them and certify the corrections with their signatures. The baseline data shall not be modified. Data produced by the precinct electoral commission by way of counting one by one shall be deemed baseline data.

2. The district electoral commission shall enter, as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission, the data of protocols on the voting results in the electoral precinct into a computer by means of special software. The software shall ensure reasonable guarantees against errors generated by the incorrect data input. The district electoral commission shall regularly but no less than every 3 hours, print the tabulation of the voting results. The tabulation certified by the signatures of the district electoral commission chairperson (deputy chairperson) and the secretary, and by the seal of the commission shall immediately be posted at the commission, in a place visible to all. The district electoral commission shall complete the entry into a computer of data of protocols on the voting results in electoral precincts no later than within 20 hours after the end of voting. The district electoral commission shall tabulate the voting results according to electoral precincts, as well as total results.

3. The district electoral commission shall immediately post at the commission the final copy of the tabulated voting results, certified by signatures of the chairperson (deputy chairperson) and the secretary of the commission, and by the commission seal, in a place visible to all. Upon their request, persons having the right to be present at the sitting of the electoral commission shall receive 1 copy of the tabulated voting results within the service area of the district electoral commission, certified by signatures of the chairperson (deputy chairperson) and the secretary of the commission, and by the commission seal.

During elections of the National Assembly, Councils of Elders of Yerevan, the district electoral commission shall submit — 24 hours after the end of voting — 1 copy of the protocol on the voting results in the electoral precinct, to the Central Electoral Commission.

3.1. During the elections of the National Assembly, the district electoral commission shall — on the day following the voting, from 12:00 — carry out scanning of the lists of electors, which may be followed by the members of precinct electoral commissions, candidates, proxies, observers and mass media representatives. The lists of electors shall be scanned in accordance with the procedure and standards prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission, so that the record number in the list of electors of the given electoral precinct, surname, name, patronymic, date of birth, address of the place of registration of the elector, as well as the columns envisaged for the signature of the elector, the individual seal of the member of the commission responsible for the registration of the elector are visible. The scanned lists of electors shall, no later than 24 hours after the launch of scanning activities, be officially published and posted on the website of the Central Electoral Commission, with the possibility to download and to search by electoral precincts.

4. During elections of the National Assembly, the obtaining, as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission, from technical equipment information on participation in elections and containing fingerprints of electors and entering it into the computer, shall be organised by means of special software.

5. During elections of the National Assembly, Councils of Elders of Yerevan, the district electoral commission shall not draw up a protocol on summarisation of the voting results, for recounting of the voting results, it shall investigate, within the time limits established by this Code, the violations recorded in the registration books of precinct electoral commissions on the voting day, summarise the investigation results at the sitting of the commission, and submit the decision adopted thereon to the Central Electoral Commission.

(Article 73 supplemented by HO-158-N of 20 October 2016)
(Amendments to Article 73 shall be applied upon the entry into force of the Law of HO-158-N of 20 October 2016, starting from the first round of election of the National Assembly)