THE
LAW
OF
THE
REPUBLIC
OF
ARMENIA
ON THE ELECTIONS OF THE LOCAL
SELF-GOVERNING BODIES
5) the number of votes given in favor of each candidate;
6) the number of votes given against all candidates;
7) the total number of votes given in favor of candidates.
8) the measure of incorrectness influencing the number of votes given in favor of each
candidate.
36.6 The Community Electoral Commission passes one of the following decisions based on
data registered in the protocol and according to the provisions of this law :
1) on recognizing the elections as taken place and on election of the community leader;
2) on recognizing the elections as invalid and designating a re-vote;
3) on implementing a second stage of elections;
4) on recognizing the elections in the community as not taken place and on conducting of new elections.
36.7 The decision is signed by the members of the committee present on the session and is stamped by the community chairman.
36.8 Refusal to sign a protocol by committee member is registered by the committee and adjoined to the protocol summarizing the results of the elections.
36.9 Upon the request of the candidate's proxy or accredited foreign observer they are given the copy of the protocol summarizing the results of the elections certified by the signature of the committee chairman or the committee secretary and the committee stamp.
36.10 A candidate for the community leader is recognized as elected in the first stage of the election if he/she has received more, than the half of the votes in favor.
36.11 If more than two candidates ran in the first stage of the elections or in a re-voting, and no one was elected, then a re-voting (second stage of voting) is conducted, in which the first and second candidate received the plurality of votes in the first stage participate, the result of which being that the candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast is recognized as elected. A re-voting is conducted in the community 14 days after the day of elections, in the manner prescribed by this law
36.12 If only one candidate runs in any stage of elections then he/she is recognized as elected if he/she has received more than the half of the votes of those participating in the elections.
36.13 An election of the community leader is considered as invalid in any stage of elections if :
1) the measure of incorrectness in the number of votes given in favor of any candidate
substantially affect the outcome of the election such that it is not possible to reconstruct
the real result of elections and thus determine the elected candidate;
2) violations of law were made during the preparation and implementation of the elections
that prevent the exercise of equal, direct and free election rights in a secret ballot and
which could affect substantially the results of the election.
36.14 The elections are considered as not taken place if :
1) the only candidate running doesn't receive more than the half of the votes of those participating in the elections;
2) the elected candidate died before summarizing the results of elections;
3) two candidates had been voted in the second stage of elections, which had received equal votes;
4) grounds are available for recognizing as invalid the elections of the community leader in
re-voting.
37.1 The Community Electoral Commission, in the presence of the persons having the right to be present at the session of the committee, checks the correspondence of the data of protocols of each electoral precinct on summarizing the results of the elections to each other.
37.2 In case of discrepancy of the mentioned data in separate precincts by a written demand of at least 4 members of the Community Electoral Commission the Community Electoral Committee checks the correspondence of the data in the protocols on summarizing the results of voting of Precinct Electoral Commissions to the factual data on voting. The authors of the special opinion adjoined to the protocol of the corresponding Precinct Electoral Commission and the chairman of that Committee can participate in the procedure of checking.
37.3 In case a discrepancy is revealed as a result of checking, the Community Electoral Committee composes a corrected protocol of the results of voting in the corresponding precinct, to which the preliminary protocol of the Precinct Electoral Commission is attached. The corrected protocol is signed by the members of the committee, present on the session and is stamped by the chairman of Community Electoral Commission. If any member of the Community Electoral Commission has a special opinion on the results of corrected protocol, then he/she is making a note near his/her signature presenting the opinion in writing, which is attached to protocol.
37.4 The refusal of committee member to sign the corrected protocol is registers and attached to the corrected protocol.
37.5 The Communit y Electoral Commission composes a protocol for each vo ting district summarizing the results of elections of the members of community council, correcting the discrepancies i n the results of voting in electoral precincts in the cases prescribed by this Article, and checking in the manner prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission the incorrectness of the voting results and their influence on the number of votes given in favor of each candidate, mentioning separately ( by each voting district ) and by precinct the following results :