The enterprises, establishments and organizations, state and public bodies shall provide to the electoral committees the necessary office space and furniture for the preparation and implementation of the elections and are obliged to lend practical assistance within their means to the process of preparation and implementation of the elections.

The decisions of the electoral committees adopted within their jurisdiction are subject to mandatory implementation by all state bodies, enterprises, establishments, organizations and individual citizens.

For the purpose of organizing and implementing the elections the territory of the Republic of Armenia shall be divided into 150 electoral districts.

The number of voters in each district shall not exceed or be less than 15 percent of the average number of voters in an electoral district.

Each electoral district shall be formed in such a way as to contain districts with common borders. Each settlement within an electoral district shall be divided into electoral precincts. The number of voters in an electoral precinct shall not be less than 100 or exceed 3000, except for the precincts formed in certain cases with the permission of the Central electoral committee.

The precincts shall be formed in such a way as to contain buildings and houses closest to the election site.

The electoral committees inform the public on their activities, the formation of electoral districts and precincts, the membership, location, working hours and the lists of constituent voters of respective electoral committees.

The electoral committees inform the citizens on the nomination and registration status of the candidates for deputies, their biographical data, the main provisions of the pre-election programs of the candidates and public-political organizations and the summary votes and election results for each candidate.

The representatives of the public-political organizations, the press, the television and the radio, observers and the proxies of the candidates for deputies of the respective electoral districts have the right to be present at the registration of the candidates for deputies, the sealing of the ballot-boxes, the opening of the latter and counting of the votes, the determining the outcome of the elections as well as during the whole duration of the voting.

The authorization of the representatives must be endorsed by proper documents and the respective electoral district electoral committees must be notified of the latter at least 3 days prior to the date of the elections.

The respective electoral committee shall create equal conditions for ensuring the presence of the representatives.

No more than two proxies of each candidate for deputy and public-political organization may be present at an electoral precinct.

The electoral committees comprise the citizens of the Republic of Armenia that have the right to vote.

Members of the electoral committees are proposed by the governing bodies provided by the charters of the competing public-political organizations according to the principle of equal representation in the prescribed manner.

In case the competing public-political organizations do not submit enough proposals the electoral committees are formed and augmented by decision of a superior electoral committee 3 days prior to the deadline set by this law for forming the respective electoral committees.

If the superior electoral committee does not decide on forming or augmenting the membership of the respective electoral committee within the deadline provided by section 3 of this Article, the decision is made by the chairman of the superior electoral committee.

Members of an electoral committees can not be laid off from their permanent employment by the management or be subjected to administrative penalty during the function of the electoral committee without agreement of a superior electoral committee.

Members of electoral committees can not be drafted into military service.

Decisions on nominating members of electoral committees are submitted to respective superior electoral committees.

Information on the membership of electoral committees is published in the manner prescribed by the Central electoral committee.

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