Approved by Decision # 32/151
of the Central Election Commission
of the Republic of Azerbaijan
dated on October 5, 2005

INSTRUCTION
on the working rule for the Precinct Election Commissions on the voting day

1. The Instruction determines rules for the organization of voting by Precinct Election Commission (PEC) in the precinct and outside it on the voting day pursuant to Articles 98, 99, 104 and 105 of Election Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan (hereafter referred to as Election Code).
2. The voting on the Election Day to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan shall be conducted since 8.00 a.m. till 19.00 p.m. The working time of the PEC shall commence since 7.00 and continue up to compiling of the protocol on the voting results and submission of relevant documents to the Constituency Election Commission (Con.EC.
2.1. Before the commence of the voting the PEC first shall check the information (information materials about candidates and badges that are samples of completed ballot papers, protocol samples on voting results), equipment in the voting room, as well as ballot boxes and voting booth, table and chairs, watch to define time, alternative energy sources (lanterns, candles, etc.), stamps of PEC, stamp determining voting day, calculators, scissors, writing equipment whether they are in their place or not and takes necessary measures to prevent the discovered shortcomings. PEC Chairman shall place ballot boxes, voting booth and other special equipment so that to ensure facilities for the persons having right to be in the precinct at this time to act and for voters to vote under comfortable condition. Ballot box shall be placed in the place that is well seen for observation.
2.2. By leading the work of the PEC, PEC Chairman shall organize the implementation of authorities of the commission determined by legislation and conduct work distribution among commissioners.
2.2.1. One of the PEC commissioners shall meet the voters coming to the precinct with respect and after inspecting their ID cards or other identity documents and voter card, shall offer them to approach the information badge where the information about candidates, information about rules for completing ballot papers and enlarged protocol samples on voting results are hanged and to approach the table where commissioners sit after being familiarized with the relevant information there. (If the voter does not bring voter card, ID card or its substitute document with himself/herself, then the commissioner shall explain to him/her about impossibility of voting without these documents and shall recommend to him/her to bring relevant documents to the PEC. If it is founded that the voter did not bring voter card, then he shall advice him/her to approach the commissioner investigating this issue).
2.2.2. Another of the commissioners shall find surname, name and patronymic of another voter and after being sure of compatibility of the information included there with voter card, ID card or its substitute document, shall recommend to get ballot paper and envelope from the third commissioner sitting near him/her.
2.2.3. This commissioner shall provide the voter with ballot paper upper left corner of which is cut and envelope stamped there and the voter shall be offered to sign in the voters list that is in the hands of another commissioner, rules for completing ballot paper shall be explained to him/her at the same time and the voter card shall be stamped with the seal indicating the voting day.
2.2.4. The other one of the commissioners shall control placing of ballot boxes in place determined by law, attendance of only one voter in the voting booth in order to ensure secrecy of voting and by putting the ballot paper in the envelope to cast it in ballot box by voters.
2.2.5. Secretary of election commission shall sit near the commissioner to who the voter list belongs and this commissioner shall have the copy of the voters list. At the same time, secretary shall compile list of international and domestic observers, investigate the possibility of providing the voter not having voter card berceuse of this or another reason, but whose name has been included in the voters list with voter card and distribute cards to the persons to be provided with voter cards by requesting to sign in the register. By the decision of the Court and by informing Constituency Election Commission (Con.EC), one can apply for taking relevant measures on distributing voter cards to the voters not having voter cards because of other reasons (when the card is spoilt, lost, etc.) and whose names have been included in the voters list.
2.3. PEC Chairman can make changes in the work distribution.
2.4. PEC commissioners shall be sure of staying of only the persons implied by law (the list of these persons shall be prepared), ensuring of the security of the voting room, pulling the unnecessary things and pre-election campaign materials out of the voting room and being in place of necessary materials and forms.
2.5. PEC Chairman shall control the observance of rules in the voting place. At the same time, he shall control observance of Article 40.15 of Election Code by other persons acting pursuant to Election Code in the voting room (The persons implied by Article 40.2 of Election Code, representatives of mass media shall have the badge in the form defined by Central Election Commission, which indicates the status, surname, name, patronymic, position and photo of this person). Orders of PEC shall be obligatory for the persons being in the voting room. In the absence of the PEC Chairman in the precinct, PEC Secretary or the commissioner charged with this post shall substitute him/her.
2.6. On the voting day, before the commence of the voting, unused de-registration cards shall be counted, canceled by being cut half, put in separate envelopes and relevant act shall be compiled on this. The information indicated in this act is the legal base for including in the protocol on the voting result.
2.7. Before the commence of the voting, PEC commissioners shall count the ballot papers by the observation of the persons having right to this, inspect previous stamping of each of them by PEC (after getting ballot papers from the Con.EC pursuant to Article 99.6 of Election Code, upper right corner of their front side shall be verified by the stamp of the PEC) and an act shall be compiled on this.
2.8. Receiving and protecting PEC Chairmen carry responsibility for preserving ballot papers. Ballot papers and envelopes shall be preserved in secure place up to submitting to the relevant commissioners.
3. At 7.50 PEC Chairman shall declare the precinct open, after showing empty ballot boxes to commissioners and at this time to the persons having right to this (members of election commissions having consultative rights, registered candidates, their authorized representatives and agents, observers, authorized representatives and agents of political parties, political party blocs, representatives of mass media and international observers) and locking them, shall inform PEC commissioners about the commence of the voting at 8.00 and at this time, shall invite voters being in the precinct to vote.
3.1. After locking ballot boxes, an act shall be compiled by noting numbers on locks and unused locks.
3.2. Ballot boxes shall be placed in places where PEC commissioners and observers can observe without interference.
3.3. Attendance of officials of state bodies and policemen voting rooms shall be prohibited excluding the cases of their voting as voters.
3.4. On Election Day, policemen can be invited to the precinct by the chairman of the commission by the decision of PEC in order to restore the public order. After restoring public order, they shall immediately leave the precinct and shall implement their service duties at least at 100 meters distance from the building where PEC is located. If the restoration of public order during the voting was not possible during more than 6 hours, then the precinct shall be closed by the decision of the Con.EC and the voting shall be considered invalid on this precinct.
3.5. In order to vote, the voter shall get ballot paper after submitting voter card together with ID card or its substitute document to the PEC commissioner and serial number of his/her ID card (or its substitute document) shall be written on the voters list by the PEC commissioner. ID card shall be stamped by the seal indicating voting day. While providing the voter with ballot paper, its numbered left corner shall be cut on cut line by the PEC commissioner and he/she shall preserve it. The voter shall be given previously stamped ballot paper (pursuant to Article 99.6 of Election Code) together with an envelope and only the envelope shall be sealed.
3.6. The voter shall check the accuracy of writings and while getting ballot paper shall sign in the voters list. Each voter shall vote freely, independently and secretly. During the voting, the voter unable to get ballot paper independently or complete it, can invite any persons he/she wants to the voting booth for help except the PEC commissioners, observers and the persons implied by item #3 of the Instruction. Initial and surname of this person shall be indicated together with the sign of the voter in the voters list on getting ballot paper.
3.7. If the voter did not get voter card up to the voting day because of this or another reason, then on this day before the voting, this card shall be submitted to the voter in the case defined by the relevant Instruction adopted by Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Approved by Decision # 5/12 dated on March 29, 2005).
If the distribution of voter cards written for the voters whose names have been included in the voters list was impossible, then by preserving these cards in the precinct up to the voting day, they shall be provided to the voters in the case defined by the above-mentioned Instruction.
It is requested to take activities for ensuring providence of the voters included in the voters list by the court decision and by informing the relevant Con.EC about them. When the voter card is spoilt or lost, the Con.EC shall provide the voter with new voter card in accordance with the written application of the voter.
3.8. Citizens having active suffrage who lost their sight shall vote via stencil forms specially prepared for them (Brile alphabet).
3.9. Ballot paper shall be completed in the cabinet furnished with special equipment for secret voting and where no one can enter (except the persons for assistance implied by the item # 3.6 of the Instruction). The voter shall put the ballot paper in the envelope stamped by the PEC and cast it in the ballot box considered for voting.
3.10. If the voter applies to the PEC commissioner who provided ballot paper to him on making mistakes while completing the ballot paper, then this voter can be provided with new ballot paper instead of the spoilt one. In this case, the commissioner shall cancel the ballot paper by cutting it half, put it in the envelope, give a new ballot paper to the voter and make relevant notes on the right side of voter’s surname in the voters list. A separate act shall be immediately compiled on this.
4. The PEC commissioner who wanted to influence the voter to express his/her will or broke secret voting shall be dismissed by compiling relevant act and the person indicated by Articles 40.2 and 40.4 of Election Code shall be taken out of the room without delay. The PEC shall adopt decision on this. In the case of not following the order to leave the precinct, then the PEC Chairman can invite police pursuant to item # 3.4 of the Instruction. If the voter subjected to influence could not vote, his/her voting shall be prohibited and the ballot paper shall be take back from him/her and considered invalid. The PEC shall adopt relevant decision on this.
4.1. The PEC Chairman shall declare the number of voters participated in the voting in every 3 hours and shall inform the Con.EC on this.
4.2. The PEC shall ensure all facilities for all voters, as well as the voters unable to come to the voting room because of their health to participate in the voting. In this aim, one mobile ballot box shall be in each precinct.
5. Appeals of the voters on the voting outside the voting room shall be approved by the Con.EC at least 2 days prior to the voting day.
In order to ensure the participation of the voter outside the precinct, the intend of the voter to vote outside the voting room shall be approved via the written application sent to the PEC when 2 members of the PEC who represent different political parties, or independents and political parties come near the voter by the participation of observers. If the voter did not express his/her intend to vote outside the voting room in written for, then he/she shall write an application near the PEC commissioners. The voter shall note about getting ballot paper and envelope and approve it via his/her signature. At this time, the application should contain serial number of ID card or its substitute document. The application should contain the information included in the voters list.
Furthermore, if according to his/her previous investigation the PEC Chairman discovers that the voter has not been provided with voter card, by being compiled for this person at the Con.EC the voter card preserved at the PEC shall be provided to the commissioner accompanying the mobile ballot box and the person got the card shall sign the relevant act compiled on this. The commissioner asks the voter to sign in the Appendice made to the register (this appendice is attached to the register book) signed and stamped by Chairman and secretary, brings back the voter card with himself/herself and provides it to its owner after putting the stamp indicating the voting day.
5.1. The PEC commissioners accompanying the mobile ballot boxes shall get the ballot papers and sealed envelopes in appropriate number with the applications (appeals). 3 ballot papers and stamped envelope shall be added to this number and these remaining ballot papers shall be used when the ballot paper is spoilt. In this case, an act shall be compiled on the spoil of the ballot paper. At the same time, if the envelope is spoilt, an act shall be compiled on this, too.
The number of the ballot papers used and returned without being used related to the applications of voters and stamped envelopes shall be indicated in the separately compiled act. The PEC commissioner shall indicate the voting of the voter outside of the precinct in the voters list, as well. After returning the mobile ballot box to the voting room, they shall not be opened till counting of votes and their cracks shall be locked.
5.2. Outside of the voting room the voting shall be organized so that there should not be law violations on citizens` suffrage, secret voting and free expression of the voter`s will.
5.3. At 19.00 the PEC Chairman shall declare the end of the voting, at the same time, shall order to the relevant commissioner not to let the other persons to enter the voting room as their voting time is ended except the persons who got ballot papers and stay in turns in the voting room. Afterwards, only the voters staying in the voting room shall implement the voting.
Before opening ballot boxes, unused ballot boxes shall be counted and canceled by the PEC commissioners under observation of the observers in the voting room. The number of these ballot papers shall be declared, an act shall be compiled on this and canceled ballot paper shall be added to the act. The information included in the act shall be indicated in the protocol while compiling it. Afterwards, ballot boxes shall be opened in turn: firstly, mobile ballot boxes, then stationary ballot boxes.
5.4. When opening ballot boxes, an act shall be compiled by indicating the number of their locks and numbers and shall be put in separate envelope.
5.5. The locks considered for ballot boxes, but unused ones shall be counted, their numbers shall be written down, collected in an envelope, this envelope shall be sealed and relevant act shall be compiled on this.
5.6. Counting of votes shall be conducted without a break by the PEC Chairman by the participation of the PEC commissioners till ending of the voting. At this time, each used ballot paper shall be stamped. If the vote validity is suspicious, then the PEC shall settle the issue by voting. If a decision is adopted on invalidity of the vote, then the reasons of considering invalid shall be indicated on the back side of the ballot paper. Such notes shall be approved by signatures of the PEC Chairman and Secretaries. Back sides of these ballot papers shall be stamped. At the same time, “Invalid” word shall be written on the back side of all of the used and invalid ballot papers and shall be stamped. All PEC commissioners and observers shall be made familiar with the voting results.
5.7. After the end of the voting, parallel counting of votes shall be ensured in the precinct.
5.8. Rules for counting of votes and completing of the final protocol shall be regulated by Articles 100, 106 of Election Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as Comment “on rules for counting of votes and completing of the PEC protocol on results on Elections to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan” approved by Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Note: Documents sent to the Con.EC shall be compiled and submitted pursuant to requirements of Comment “on rules for counting of votes and completing of the PEC protocol on results on Elections to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan”.
Till the end of the activity of the commission, the PEC Secretary shall preserve complaints (applications), decisions adopted by PEC, acts sent to the Con.EC (act on getting ballot papers, act on the cancel of unused ballot papers (by indicating the number of such ballot papers)), act on the distribution of voting cards and cancel of unused voting cards (by indicating the number of these cards), act on the number of the ballot papers spoilt by the voters, separately compiled act on the number of closed and stamped envelopes, ballot papers used taken by mobile ballot boxes and returned without being used, the approved copies attached to the second copy of the protocol, second copy of the protocol, cut left corners of ballot papers, cuts of the spoilt ballot papers, acts implied by Articles 5.4 and 5.5 of the Instruction and locks stamped and put in the envelopes, lists of the persons who observe the voting and counting of votes and those implied by Articles 40.2 and 40.4 of Election Code (Appendice # 1 made to the Instruction).

Lıst of the persons who observe the votıng and vote countıng (appendice #1)

Approved by Decision # 32/151
of the Central Election Commission
of the Republic of Azerbaijan
dated on October 5, 2005

INSTRUCTION
on the working rule for the Precinct Election Commissions on the voting day

1. The Instruction determines rules for the organization of voting by Precinct Election Commission (PEC) in the precinct and outside it on the voting day pursuant to Articles 98, 99, 104 and 105 of Election Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan (hereafter referred to as Election Code).
2. The voting on the Election Day to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan shall be conducted since 8.00 a.m. till 19.00 p.m. The working time of the PEC shall commence since 7.00 and continue up to compiling of the protocol on the voting results and submission of relevant documents to the Constituency Election Commission (Con.EC.
2.1. Before the commence of the voting the PEC first shall check the information (information materials about candidates and badges that are samples of completed ballot papers, protocol samples on voting results), equipment in the voting room, as well as ballot boxes and voting booth, table and chairs, watch to define time, alternative energy sources (lanterns, candles, etc.), stamps of PEC, stamp determining voting day, calculators, scissors, writing equipment whether they are in their place or not and takes necessary measures to prevent the discovered shortcomings. PEC Chairman shall place ballot boxes, voting booth and other special equipment so that to ensure facilities for the persons having right to be in the precinct at this time to act and for voters to vote under comfortable condition. Ballot box shall be placed in the place that is well seen for observation.
2.2. By leading the work of the PEC, PEC Chairman shall organize the implementation of authorities of the commission determined by legislation and conduct work distribution among commissioners.
2.2.1. One of the PEC commissioners shall meet the voters coming to the precinct with respect and after inspecting their ID cards or other identity documents and voter card, shall offer them to approach the information badge where the information about candidates, information about rules for completing ballot papers and enlarged protocol samples on voting results are hanged and to approach the table where commissioners sit after being familiarized with the relevant information there. (If the voter does not bring voter card, ID card or its substitute document with himself/herself, then the commissioner shall explain to him/her about impossibility of voting without these documents and shall recommend to him/her to bring relevant documents to the PEC. If it is founded that the voter did not bring voter card, then he shall advice him/her to approach the commissioner investigating this issue).
2.2.2. Another of the commissioners shall find surname, name and patronymic of another voter and after being sure of compatibility of the information included there with voter card, ID card or its substitute document, shall recommend to get ballot paper and envelope from the third commissioner sitting near him/her.
2.2.3. This commissioner shall provide the voter with ballot paper upper left corner of which is cut and envelope stamped there and the voter shall be offered to sign in the voters list that is in the hands of another commissioner, rules for completing ballot paper shall be explained to him/her at the same time and the voter card shall be stamped with the seal indicating the voting day.
2.2.4. The other one of the commissioners shall control placing of ballot boxes in place determined by law, attendance of only one voter in the voting booth in order to ensure secrecy of voting and by putting the ballot paper in the envelope to cast it in ballot box by voters.
2.2.5. Secretary of election commission shall sit near the commissioner to who the voter list belongs and this commissioner shall have the copy of the voters list. At the same time, secretary shall compile list of international and domestic observers, investigate the possibility of providing the voter not having voter card berceuse of this or another reason, but whose name has been included in the voters list with voter card and distribute cards to the persons to be provided with voter cards by requesting to sign in the register. By the decision of the Court and by informing Constituency Election Commission (Con.EC), one can apply for taking relevant measures on distributing voter cards to the voters not having voter cards because of other reasons (when the card is spoilt, lost, etc.) and whose names have been included in the voters list.
2.3. PEC Chairman can make changes in the work distribution.
2.4. PEC commissioners shall be sure of staying of only the persons implied by law (the list of these persons shall be prepared), ensuring of the security of the voting room, pulling the unnecessary things and pre-election campaign materials out of the voting room and being in place of necessary materials and forms.
2.5. PEC Chairman shall control the observance of rules in the voting place. At the same time, he shall control observance of Article 40.15 of Election Code by other persons acting pursuant to Election Code in the voting room (The persons implied by Article 40.2 of Election Code, representatives of mass media shall have the badge in the form defined by Central Election Commission, which indicates the status, surname, name, patronymic, position and photo of this person). Orders of PEC shall be obligatory for the persons being in the voting room. In the absence of the PEC Chairman in the precinct, PEC Secretary or the commissioner charged with this post shall substitute him/her.
2.6. On the voting day, before the commence of the voting, unused de-registration cards shall be counted, canceled by being cut half, put in separate envelopes and relevant act shall be compiled on this. The information indicated in this act is the legal base for including in the protocol on the voting result.
2.7. Before the commence of the voting, PEC commissioners shall count the ballot papers by the observation of the persons having right to this, inspect previous stamping of each of them by PEC (after getting ballot papers from the Con.EC pursuant to Article 99.6 of Election Code, upper right corner of their front side shall be verified by the stamp of the PEC) and an act shall be compiled on this.
2.8. Receiving and protecting PEC Chairmen carry responsibility for preserving ballot papers. Ballot papers and envelopes shall be preserved in secure place up to submitting to the relevant commissioners.
3. At 7.50 PEC Chairman shall declare the precinct open, after showing empty ballot boxes to commissioners and at this time to the persons having right to this (members of election commissions having consultative rights, registered candidates, their authorized representatives and agents, observers, authorized representatives and agents of political parties, political party blocs, representatives of mass media and international observers) and locking them, shall inform PEC commissioners about the commence of the voting at 8.00 and at this time, shall invite voters being in the precinct to vote.
3.1. After locking ballot boxes, an act shall be compiled by noting numbers on locks and unused locks.
3.2. Ballot boxes shall be placed in places where PEC commissioners and observers can observe without interference.
3.3. Attendance of officials of state bodies and policemen voting rooms shall be prohibited excluding the cases of their voting as voters.
3.4. On Election Day, policemen can be invited to the precinct by the chairman of the commission by the decision of PEC in order to restore the public order. After restoring public order, they shall immediately leave the precinct and shall implement their service duties at least at 100 meters distance from the building where PEC is located. If the restoration of public order during the voting was not possible during more than 6 hours, then the precinct shall be closed by the decision of the Con.EC and the voting shall be considered invalid on this precinct.
3.5. In order to vote, the voter shall get ballot paper after submitting voter card together with ID card or its substitute document to the PEC commissioner and serial number of his/her ID card (or its substitute document) shall be written on the voters list by the PEC commissioner. ID card shall be stamped by the seal indicating voting day. While providing the voter with ballot paper, its numbered left corner shall be cut on cut line by the PEC commissioner and he/she shall preserve it. The voter shall be given previously stamped ballot paper (pursuant to Article 99.6 of Election Code) together with an envelope and only the envelope shall be sealed.
3.6. The voter shall check the accuracy of writings and while getting ballot paper shall sign in the voters list. Each voter shall vote freely, independently and secretly. During the voting, the voter unable to get ballot paper independently or complete it, can invite any persons he/she wants to the voting booth for help except the PEC commissioners, observers and the persons implied by item #3 of the Instruction. Initial and surname of this person shall be indicated together with the sign of the voter in the voters list on getting ballot paper.
3.7. If the voter did not get voter card up to the voting day because of this or another reason, then on this day before the voting, this card shall be submitted to the voter in the case defined by the relevant Instruction adopted by Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Approved by Decision # 5/12 dated on March 29, 2005).
If the distribution of voter cards written for the voters whose names have been included in the voters list was impossible, then by preserving these cards in the precinct up to the voting day, they shall be provided to the voters in the case defined by the above-mentioned Instruction.
It is requested to take activities for ensuring providence of the voters included in the voters list by the court decision and by informing the relevant Con.EC about them. When the voter card is spoilt or lost, the Con.EC shall provide the voter with new voter card in accordance with the written application of the voter.
3.8. Citizens having active suffrage who lost their sight shall vote via stencil forms specially prepared for them (Brile alphabet).
3.9. Ballot paper shall be completed in the cabinet furnished with special equipment for secret voting and where no one can enter (except the persons for assistance implied by the item # 3.6 of the Instruction). The voter shall put the ballot paper in the envelope stamped by the PEC and cast it in the ballot box considered for voting.
3.10. If the voter applies to the PEC commissioner who provided ballot paper to him on making mistakes while completing the ballot paper, then this voter can be provided with new ballot paper instead of the spoilt one. In this case, the commissioner shall cancel the ballot paper by cutting it half, put it in the envelope, give a new ballot paper to the voter and make relevant notes on the right side of voter’s surname in the voters list. A separate act shall be immediately compiled on this.
4. The PEC commissioner who wanted to influence the voter to express his/her will or broke secret voting shall be dismissed by compiling relevant act and the person indicated by Articles 40.2 and 40.4 of Election Code shall be taken out of the room without delay. The PEC shall adopt decision on this. In the case of not following the order to leave the precinct, then the PEC Chairman can invite police pursuant to item # 3.4 of the Instruction. If the voter subjected to influence could not vote, his/her voting shall be prohibited and the ballot paper shall be take back from him/her and considered invalid. The PEC shall adopt relevant decision on this.
4.1. The PEC Chairman shall declare the number of voters participated in the voting in every 3 hours and shall inform the Con.EC on this.
4.2. The PEC shall ensure all facilities for all voters, as well as the voters unable to come to the voting room because of their health to participate in the voting. In this aim, one mobile ballot box shall be in each precinct.
5. Appeals of the voters on the voting outside the voting room shall be approved by the Con.EC at least 2 days prior to the voting day.
In order to ensure the participation of the voter outside the precinct, the intend of the voter to vote outside the voting room shall be approved via the written application sent to the PEC when 2 members of the PEC who represent different political parties, or independents and political parties come near the voter by the participation of observers. If the voter did not express his/her intend to vote outside the voting room in written for, then he/she shall write an application near the PEC commissioners. The voter shall note about getting ballot paper and envelope and approve it via his/her signature. At this time, the application should contain serial number of ID card or its substitute document. The application should contain the information included in the voters list.
Furthermore, if according to his/her previous investigation the PEC Chairman discovers that the voter has not been provided with voter card, by being compiled for this person at the Con.EC the voter card preserved at the PEC shall be provided to the commissioner accompanying the mobile ballot box and the person got the card shall sign the relevant act compiled on this. The commissioner asks the voter to sign in the Appendice made to the register (this appendice is attached to the register book) signed and stamped by Chairman and secretary, brings back the voter card with himself/herself and provides it to its owner after putting the stamp indicating the voting day.
5.1. The PEC commissioners accompanying the mobile ballot boxes shall get the ballot papers and sealed envelopes in appropriate number with the applications (appeals). 3 ballot papers and stamped envelope shall be added to this number and these remaining ballot papers shall be used when the ballot paper is spoilt. In this case, an act shall be compiled on the spoil of the ballot paper. At the same time, if the envelope is spoilt, an act shall be compiled on this, too.
The number of the ballot papers used and returned without being used related to the applications of voters and stamped envelopes shall be indicated in the separately compiled act. The PEC commissioner shall indicate the voting of the voter outside of the precinct in the voters list, as well. After returning the mobile ballot box to the voting room, they shall not be opened till counting of votes and their cracks shall be locked.
5.2. Outside of the voting room the voting shall be organized so that there should not be law violations on citizens` suffrage, secret voting and free expression of the voter`s will.
5.3. At 19.00 the PEC Chairman shall declare the end of the voting, at the same time, shall order to the relevant commissioner not to let the other persons to enter the voting room as their voting time is ended except the persons who got ballot papers and stay in turns in the voting room. Afterwards, only the voters staying in the voting room shall implement the voting.
Before opening ballot boxes, unused ballot boxes shall be counted and canceled by the PEC commissioners under observation of the observers in the voting room. The number of these ballot papers shall be declared, an act shall be compiled on this and canceled ballot paper shall be added to the act. The information included in the act shall be indicated in the protocol while compiling it. Afterwards, ballot boxes shall be opened in turn: firstly, mobile ballot boxes, then stationary ballot boxes.
5.4. When opening ballot boxes, an act shall be compiled by indicating the number of their locks and numbers and shall be put in separate envelope.
5.5. The locks considered for ballot boxes, but unused ones shall be counted, their numbers shall be written down, collected in an envelope, this envelope shall be sealed and relevant act shall be compiled on this.
5.6. Counting of votes shall be conducted without a break by the PEC Chairman by the participation of the PEC commissioners till ending of the voting. At this time, each used ballot paper shall be stamped. If the vote validity is suspicious, then the PEC shall settle the issue by voting. If a decision is adopted on invalidity of the vote, then the reasons of considering invalid shall be indicated on the back side of the ballot paper. Such notes shall be approved by signatures of the PEC Chairman and Secretaries. Back sides of these ballot papers shall be stamped. At the same time, “Invalid” word shall be written on the back side of all of the used and invalid ballot papers and shall be stamped. All PEC commissioners and observers shall be made familiar with the voting results.
5.7. After the end of the voting, parallel counting of votes shall be ensured in the precinct.
5.8. Rules for counting of votes and completing of the final protocol shall be regulated by Articles 100, 106 of Election Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as Comment “on rules for counting of votes and completing of the PEC protocol on results on Elections to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan” approved by Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Note: Documents sent to the Con.EC shall be compiled and submitted pursuant to requirements of Comment “on rules for counting of votes and completing of the PEC protocol on results on Elections to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan”.
Till the end of the activity of the commission, the PEC Secretary shall preserve complaints (applications), decisions adopted by PEC, acts sent to the Con.EC (act on getting ballot papers, act on the cancel of unused ballot papers (by indicating the number of such ballot papers)), act on the distribution of voting cards and cancel of unused voting cards (by indicating the number of these cards), act on the number of the ballot papers spoilt by the voters, separately compiled act on the number of closed and stamped envelopes, ballot papers used taken by mobile ballot boxes and returned without being used, the approved copies attached to the second copy of the protocol, second copy of the protocol, cut left corners of ballot papers, cuts of the spoilt ballot papers, acts implied by Articles 5.4 and 5.5 of the Instruction and locks stamped and put in the envelopes, lists of the persons who observe the voting and counting of votes and those implied by Articles 40.2 and 40.4 of Election Code (Appendice # 1 made to the Instruction).

Lıst of the persons who observe the votıng and vote countıng (appendice #1)