"There are several articles about the voting procedure, how could they fit all that on a small ballot?" Hrayr Tovmasyan to Artak Galstyan

The Constitutional Court continues the examination of the combined case to invalidate the results of the early parliamentary elections held on June 20.

Artak Galstyan, a representative of the "Homeland of Armenians" party, expressed his political force's position, stating that the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) violated Article 59 of the Electoral Code when approving the ballot sample, asserting that the sample did not comply with the legally established procedure as it did not specify the voting procedure.

Constitutional Court Judge Hrayr Tovmasyan reminded that the voting procedure is related to Chapter 2 of the Electoral Code and inquired whether this meant that all that information should have been written on the ballot.

Artak Galstyan recalled that the ballots were fairly large, and the reverse side could accommodate such a volume of text.

CEC representative and commission secretary Armen Smbatyan pointed out that when the ballot sample was approved at the CEC meeting, a representative from the "Strong Homeland" party was present and signed it without raising any objections.

Regarding the front page, Galstyan mentioned that it only stated that there should be no notes and did not specify how such notes could be made. "It could have been done with a pen, a pencil, a marker, just a fingerprint, or even lipstick. For instance, someone could be in love with Nikol Pashinyan and decided to leave a kiss mark there," Galstyan said.

Smbatyan once again emphasized that "Strong Homeland" did not object or lodge a complaint against this CEC decision.