During the preparation and conduct of elections of deputies of the State Duma the election commission of a Russian Federation subject shall:

1) coordinate activities of lower election commissions of a Russian Federation subject, renders assistance to them on methodological, technical, organizational and other matters;

2) provide for interaction of the CEC with bodies of state power in the subject of the Russian Federation;

3) exercise control over respect of electoral rights on the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation;

4) distribute the monetary resources allocated for preparation and conduct of the election, and exercise control over targeted use of these resources on the territory of a subject of the Russian Federation, including between DECs and TECs.

5) control over donations to the electoral funds of respective regional chapters of political parties and their expenditures;

6) register authorized agents of regional chapters of political parties on financial issues;

7) hear information of officials of executive bodies of the subject of the Russian Federation and bodies of local government on issues related to the preparation and conduct of elections;

8) provide for uniform use of GAS Vybory on the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation in the procedure set forth by the CEC;

9) provide for adherence to the technical standards of the equipment (polling booths and boxes) required for the work of precinct election commissions, approved by the CEC as well as observance of rules for safekeeping, archiving and disposal upon the expiration of their safekeeping periods of documents pertaining to the preparation and conduct of the elections;

10) control over the provision of DECs, TECs and PECs with premises, transportation vehicles and communication equipment as well as control over the execution of the decisions made by the said election commissions on other logistical matters;

11) control over and provide for compliance with the uniform procedure for the vote count, determination of vote returns and election results on the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation and publication thereof;

12) ensure the timely and accurate compilation of voter lists;

13) control over adherence to the rules voter information and the conduct of election campaign on the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation;

14) undertake measures to distribute free air time and printing space among political parties registered their federal list of candidates and among candidates registered in single-mandate electoral district.

15) provide voter information on the time and procedure for the performance of electoral actions, on election campaign, political parties which nominated their federal lists of candidates, political parties which registered their federal lists of candidates, and about candidates.

16) in the events and in the procedure provided for by this Federal Law certify the text of the ballot in the state language of the republics of the Russian Federation and in languages of peoples of the Russian Federation on the territory of their compact residence;

17) provide for printing of ballots on federal electoral district and single-mandate electoral districts in a respective subject of the Russian Federation and their transfer to the TEC in line with the decisions of the CEC;

18) provide for the transfer to lower election commissions of absentee vote certificates and other documents pertaining to the elections;

19) adjudicate complaints (applications) about resolutions and actions (inactions) of TEC in this subject of the Russian Federation and adopt reasonable decisions thereon;

20) carry out other powers in accordance with this Federal Law and Federal Law “On Basic Guarantees”.