How to vote
On election day (Sunday, June 7), polling stations are open from 8:00 to 20:00. You vote at the station assigned to your registered address; if you are still in line at 20:00, you keep the right to vote (Article 54). These elections use closed-list proportional representation: you receive a set of pre-printed party ballots and select the one for your preferred party — no marking, no pen needed (CEC decision of 10 May 2021). Voters in inpatient hospital care who cannot reach a station vote via a mobile ballot box at the hospital (Article 54(2)). Citizens in diplomatic or military service abroad vote electronically a few days before election day (Article 60).
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Bring valid ID
A national ID card, a passport (biometric or non-biometric), or a temporary identity document issued by an authorised body. An expired document is not grounds to refuse you the vote. Servicemen voting on a military-unit list bring their military booklet or certificate (Article 64(3)).
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Find your station
Your registered address determines your assigned polling station. Look it up via Ditaket's search bar or in the CEC voter register at elections.am/Register. Use the same register to check that you are on the list. If you spot an error, apply to the authorised body to correct it at least 5 days before election day (Article 12(1)); within the final 4 days — and on election day until voting ends — you can still apply to be added to the supplementary list (Article 12(2), Article 13).
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Get registered at the desk
First, go to the specialist seated at the device and hand over your document. They compare your photo, insert the document into the device, and ask for a fingerprint; when the screen shows a green sign, the device prints a small slip — your voting coupon (քվեարկության կտրոն) — which the specialist gives you. Keep it and show it at the next tables. Then go to the member responsible for the voter list, give them the coupon, sign next to your name, and the member places their seal both next to your signature and on the coupon (Article 64(2)). If you cannot sign yourself, another citizen — but not a commission member — may sign for you.
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Take your ballots and envelope
The ballot-issuing member hands you a stack of pre-printed ballots — one per participating party or alliance (18 in 2026) — together with one voting envelope. You cannot decline any of them; you receive the whole set. You take them all to the booth (Article 65).
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Choose your ballot in secret
In the booth, select the pre-printed ballot of the party or alliance you support and place it — unfolded — in the envelope, then close it. You do not mark or sign anything — choosing the ballot is itself your vote. Drop the unused ballots in the box provided inside the booth. When you leave the booth, take your voting coupon with you — you will need it at the ballot box. Only you may be in the booth, except for one assistance case: a voter who cannot manage the ballots alone may, after informing the chairperson, invite one other person — not a commission member or proxy — who may assist only that one voter (Article 65(4)). Photographing the ballot you chose violates voting secrecy (Articles 5 and 65(7)).
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Hand over your coupon, drop the envelope in the box
Approach the ballot box and give your voting coupon to the responsible member. They check the coupon (and may check your ID) and — without taking the envelope from you — affix a self-verifying stamp (ինքնաստուգվող դրոշմանիշ) onto the ballot through the slit in the corner of the envelope, then open the slot of the box so you can drop the envelope in yourself (Article 66). No ink stamp is placed on your document — your participation is recorded electronically.
Leave the polling station as soon as you have voted, and do not tell anyone inside how you voted (Article 65(7)). If something concerns you at any step, file a report through Ditaket — anonymously.