1. All citizens of the Russian Federation, who possess the active right of suffrage, with the exception of the case stipulated by part 4 hereof, shall be entered on the voter list. A citizen of the Russian Federation may be entered on the voter list at one electoral precinct only.

2. The basis for the inclusion of a citizen in the voter list at a polling station is the fact of his residence in the territory of the polling station, established by bodies of registration of citizens of the Russian Federation at the place of a temporary stay and place of residence within the Russian Federation in accordance with federal law governing the exercise of the rights of citizens of the Russian Federation to the freedom of movement, choice of place of residence within the Russian Federation.

3. Military servicemen residing outside the military units shall be entered on the voter list in the place of residence in a regular procedure. The grounds for entering on the voter list of military voters staying in the military units, members of their families and other voters residing within the military units shall be the fact of their residence within the military units as is fixed by the bodies for residence and migration control of the Russian Federation or by the order of the commander of the military unit on entering on the unit’s manning list of the citizens drafted for the military service by conscription.

4. Citizens of the Russian Federation residing outside the territory of the Russian Federation or staying on long-term business-trips abroad shall be entered on the voter list of the polling station established outside the territory of the Russian Federation on the ground of their application letter submitted to the respective precinct polling commission on the day preceding the voting day or their application made in person on the voting day.

5. Voters staying on the day of election in hospitals, sanatoriums, holiday hotels, detention centres and other places of temporary stay shall be included in the voter lists on the ground of presenting their passport, or an equivalent identity document, and an absentee vote certificate for the election of deputies of the State Duma (hereafter “absentee vote certificate”).

6. Voters at the place of temporary stay, who work at enterprises with a continuous operating cycle, where there is no option to diminish duration of working day (shift) as well as servicemen who stay outside the area where their units are stationed, if they were unable to receive an absentee vote certificate, may be included in the voters list by the decision of a precinct election commission on the basis of a personal written application submitted to a TEC or PEC not later than three days prior to the voting day. This information shall be conveyed through the TEC to the PEC where the said voters are registered at the place of residence, provided these voters reside within the same subject of the Russian Federation, or to the election commission of the entity of the Russian Federation, provided these voters reside in a different entity of the Russian Federation. In the respective line of the voter list the said election commission shall make a note ‘entered on the voter list at the electoral precinct No’ followed by the number of the electoral precinct and the name of the entity of the Russian Federation. Voters missing registration at the place of residence in the territory of the Russian Federation by the decision of the precinct election commission may be entered on the voter lists at the polling station established in accordance with part 3 of Article 14 of this Federal Law at the place of their stay on the basis of their written application submitted to the precinct election commission no later than on the voting day.

7. At the polling stations established in accordance with paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Article 14 of the Federal Law on the railway stations and airports, voter lists shall be compiled on the voting day. Voters staying on voting day in these locations are included in the voter lists upon presentation of absentee vote certificate.

8. Citizens of the Russian Federation acknowledged as forced migrants or registered at the federal executive body on migration as seeking the status of forced migrants shall be entered on the voter lists at the place of their temporary residence on the ground of presenting their passport, or an equivalent identity document, as well as respective documents issued by the said bodies.

9. Citizens of the Russian Federation who possess the right to vote arriving in foreign states under private invitations, on service, business and tourist trips, shall be entered on the voter list provided that they apply to the precinct election commission and present a passport or an equivalent identity document and an absentee vote certificate. The said citizens, if failed to obtain an absentee certificate, shall be entered on the voter lists provided they turn out at the premises of the precinct election commission on the voting day.

10. Voters who are registered on the territory of the polling station after the voter list had been submitted for general familiarization, as well as voters for any other reason not entered on the voter lists shall be additionally entered by the precinct election commission on the voter lists on the basis of documents of identification and, if needed, documents confirming the place of residence (or the place of stay – provided that voters have no registration at the place of residence on the territory of the Russian Federation) on the territory of this polling station.

11. A voter registered according to his place of temporary residence on the territory of the relevant electoral precinct no later than three months before the voting day, may be included in the voter list at this polling station on the basis of personal written application submitted to the corresponding TEC within 60 - 21 days before the voting day. The address of the place of residence of the voter shall be indicated in this application. A voter who has submitted an application, shall be included in the voter lists at this electoral precinct before the transmission of the voter lists to PEC. In case on compiling the voter lists by PEC, voters shall be included in the voter list on the basis of a statement transmitted from TEC. Information about this can be transmitted with the use of GAS Vybory, to the TEC and PEC at the voter place of residence. TEC and PEC upon the receiving of this information shall make a note in the voter list: "Included in the voter list at the polling station No" indicating the number of the polling station, and if necessary, the name of the subject of the Russian Federation. If at the time of receipt of this information the voter has been excluded from the voter list at his place of residence on the basis an absentee vote certificate or on the basis of the previously submitted application for inclusion in the voters list according to another place of temporary residence, information about it in the same order shall be passed to TEC and PEC which submitted (sent) a statement of the voter on his inclusion in the voters list at the place of temporary residence. Such information is the basis for the exclusion of the voter from the voter list at his place of temporary residence 

12. A citizen can be removed from the voters list signed by the chairman and secretary of TEC (in the case provided for by paragraph 13 of Article 16 hereof, - the chairman and secretary of PEC) and stamped by this commission, only on the basis of official documents, including the report of the higher election commission on the entering of the voter on the voter list at a different electoral precinct) or when an absentee vote certificate is issued to the voter in a procedure set forth in this Federal Law. In this case, the date when the citizen was removed from the voter list and the reasons for removal shall be indicated in the voter list. This entry shall be certified by the signature of the chairman of a precinct election commission and, when an absentee vote certificate is issued, by the signature of the member of the election commission who issued the certificate, with indication of the date the signature has been attached. 

13. No alterations shall be made in the voter lists after the end of voting and commencement of vote counting.