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Article 14
 

Authorities of the territorial election commission


The corresponding territorial election commission shall:


1) supervise implementation of election legislation in the territory of an administrativeterritorial unit;


2) ensure preparation and conduct of elections of the President, deputies of the Parliament and maslikhats, members of other local self-government bodies;


2-1) register proxies of candidates to President, political parties, which have nominated their party lists, and issue corresponding certificates to them;


3) administer the activities of the subordinated territorial, district and precinct election commissions; cancel and suspend their decisions; distribute among them the funds of the republican budget allocated for conduct of electoral campaigns; control creation of the required materials and technical conditions for activities of district and precinct election commissions; considers applications and appeals related to decisions and actions (inactivity) of district and precinct election commissions; organize implementation of decisions of the Central Election Commission by all election commission formed within the boundary of the corresponding administrative-territorial unit, appeal to the body forming the election commission or to the court with an application to cease the activity of the election commissions that have committed violation of this Constitutional Act;


4) be eligible to hear to the reports of the election commissions, the state bodies and organizations on the issues related to preparation and conduct of elections as well as the reports of the public associations on the issues related to the implementation of the election legislation;


5) ensure conduct of elections of the Senate deputies; register the candidates to the Senate deputies, their proxies, issue the corresponding certificates to them; publish in the mass media the communication on registration of candidates; prepare polling stations, ensure manufacturing of the polling booths and ballot-boxes; sum up the voting results at elections of the Senate deputies and submit the protocols with the summary of the voting results to the Central Election Commission for registration of the Senate deputies;


6) form election districts at elections of maslikhat deputies and publish their list, notify voters on the locations of their election commissions;


6-1) establish a uniform numbering of electoral districts;


7) ensure production of ballots at elections of the members of other local self-government bodies, except maslikhats;


8) receive from district election commissions the protocols on registration of candidates to deputies of the corresponding maslikhats and ensure publication by the district election commissions of the lists of the registered candidates;


9) sum up the election results of maslikhat deputies, register the elected deputies and publish announcements about it in the mass media, submit to the Central Election Commission the protocols on vote count in the corresponding constituencies and electoral districts for the publication of them at the official web-site of the Central Election Commission;


10) organize rerun of a vote, re-run of election and by-election of deputies to the Senate and maslikhats;


11) appoint and organize election, re-run of election and by-election of the members of other local self-government bodies, except maslikhats; fulfill the functions of the district election commission at election of members of other local self-government bodies, except maslikhats ocated in the territory of the corresponding administrative-territorial unit; register the candidates to members of other local self-government bodies, except maslikhats, their proxies, issue the corresponding certificates to them; publish in local mass media information on registration of candidates; sum up the election results of the members of other local self-government bodies, except maslikhats and publish in local mass media information on the election results;


12) execute other authorities in compliance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.