Register of voters (electors) and the order of their compilation

1. The voter registers shall be compiled at elections of the President, deputies of the Mazhilis of Parliament and maslikhats, members of other local self-government bodies. The elector register shall be compiled at elections of the Senate deputies.

2. (The clause is excluded by the Constitutional Act of RK of 14 April 2004 No. 545-II).

3. The grounds for enrolment of a citizen in the voter register shall be the fact of his/her registration in the place of residence in the territory of the given electoral district.

4. The voter register shall be compiled in the alphabetic or other order. The register shall include the voter’s surname, given names, year of birth (for the persons of 18 year old the day and month of birth as well) and address of residence. The elector register shall be compiled in the alphabetic or other order and shall include the elector’s surname, given names, year of birth and the name of the maslikhat where the elector is a deputy as well as the address of residence.

5. The voter register by place of residence shall be compiled by the corresponding local executive body on the basis of the data provided by the population accounting agencies.

Each voter shall be eligible to be registered as a voter in the corresponding local executive body from the moment of announcement or appointment of an election.

In case if not later than thirty days before elections a voter learns that he/she shall be unable to arrive on the Election Day to the polling station at the place of his/her registration, the voter shall be eligible to submit a written application to the local executive body in the place of his/her residence and to request his/her enrolment in the corresponding voter register.

Upon an application of a citizen in compliance with this clause the local executive body shall arrange exclusion of the citizen from the voter register in the place of his/her registration and enrolment of him/her in the voter register in the electoral district where the named citizen shall vote.

The voter register by each electoral district shall be signed by the relevant akim and submitted by act to the corresponding election commission twenty days before beginning of voting.

The data on voters, preliminary compared with the data of other competent bodies and organizations shall be submitted by the local executive body in electronic and paper form to the corresponding territorial election commissions by 1 July and 1 January of each year.

The officials of local executive bodies shall bear responsibility for authenticity of the voter registers and for the data on voters submitted to the corresponding election commission.

6. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of full-time courses who live in hostels shall be included in the voter register according to the location of their hostels.

7. The register of voters, who are military servicemen in the military units as well as members of their families and other voters living in the locations of military units, shall be compiled on the basis of the data submitted by commanders of the military units.

8. The voter register by electoral districts to be formed in the rest houses, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions, in the places of the citizens’ stay in the remote and hard-to-reach areas, in the distant pastures, in the investigative wards and detention centers as well as in the representative offices and agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan in foreign states, on board of ships belonging to the Republic of Kazakhstan that on the day of elections are in navigation shall be compiled on the basis of the data submitted by the chiefs of the named establishments, corresponding akims, chiefs of the named representative offices and agencies and captains of ships.

The voter registers by electoral districts to be formed in the places for temporary stay (rest homes, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions, in the outruns, in investigative wards and detention centers , including the representative offices of the Republic of Kazakhstan а abroad, on board the ships belonging to the Republic that are in navigation on the Election Day) shall be subject to mandatory adjustment on the day preceding the Election Day.