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Article 26
 

Familiarization with the registers of voters (electors)


1. The voter register by electoral districts to be formed in the place of residence of citizens shall be presented to voters by the corresponding election commissions for familiarization with the named registers fifteen days before the day of election.


The voter register by electoral districts to be formed in the military units, on board the ships belonging to the Republic of Kazakhstan that on the day of elections are in navigation, 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 representations of the Republic of Kazakhstan in foreign states shall be presented to the voters for familiarization five days before the Election Day; in the electoral districts to be  formed at elections of members of other local self-government bodies – seven days before the Election Day.


2. The elector register at election of the Senate deputies shall be presented for public familiarization by their publication in local mass media not less than seven days before elections.


3. In the premises of the corresponding election commissions citizens (electors) shall be provided with the opportunity to be familiarized with voter (elector) registers and check the correctness of the data about voters (electors).


Working hours of a precinct election commission, except the day of voting, shall be established by the corresponding territorial election commissions.


4. Every citizen (elector) shall be eligible to check the data about him/her in the voter register and appeal against the non-enrolment, incorrect enrolment or exclusion from the register as well as against inaccuracies in the data about a voter (elector). Applications on enrolment in the voter register or exclusion from it, making corrections in the register shall be considered by the corresponding election commission on the day of the receipt of the application. In case of refusal of the application the election commission shall immediately issue a copy of decision on the motivated refusal of application. The decision can be appealed in the corresponding court in the location of the election commission, which shall consider the appeal on the day of its receipt and shall make its final judgment. In case of positive for the applicant decision the correction in the voter (elector) register or enrolment of a voter in the voter register must be done by the precinct election commission immediately.