Members of Parliament Arusyak Julhakyan and Alkhas Ghazaryan from the ruling Civil Contract faction have drafted a bill proposing amendments to the Electoral Code.

The bill introduces new grounds for declaring a ballot invalid. According to the proposal, in parliamentary elections and municipal council elections held under the proportional system, a ballot will be considered invalid if either the ballot paper or the envelope contains any markings or notes, or if the envelope includes any item other than the ballot itself. Under current regulations, the presence of another item in the envelope does not automatically invalidate the ballot.

The lawmakers also propose that the name of a political party alliance must not include personal names, the names of state or local self-government bodies, or any names that could be confusingly similar to them, including grammatical variations. In addition, the proposed rules would prohibit alliance names containing offensive or defamatory language.

The draft further stipulates that the chairperson of a district electoral commission must not hold any object while removing the envelope from the ballot box and extracting the ballot paper.