1. Members and workers of higher election commissions, the candidate registered by this or the higher election commission or its authorized representative on financial matters, or a proxy, the authorized representative or a proxy of the political party which registered a federal list of candidates or a candidate from the said list shall be entitled to attend all meetings of any election commission, and shall be entitled to be present during the vote count and during the implementation by the relevant precinct and territorial election commission of its work with the voter lists, ballots, absentee vote certificates, protocols and summary tables on the voting results. The candidate or his authorized representative on financial matters shall be entitled to attend the meeting of the district election commission, during which the registration of the candidate will be considered. The authorized representative of the political party which nominated the federal list of candidates shall have the right to attend the meeting of the Central election commission of Russian Federation, during which the registration of federal list of candidates will be considered. The above listed persons do not require additional permit from the election commission in order to attend the meetings of the election commission and to be present during implementation of commission’s work with abovementioned documents.

1.1. The mass media representatives shall be entitled to attend all meetings of the election commission and be present during the implementation by the relevant commission of its work with the documents referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, except for the case provided for in subsection 1.2 of this Article.

1.2. The mass media representatives working in the mass media editorial offices on the basis of employment contract or an onerous civil law contract not less than two months before the date of the official announcement (publication) of the decision to call the election of deputies of the State Duma, accredited in accordance with part 3 of Article 35 of this Federal law shall be entitled to be present during the election commission meetings and during determination of voting result, election and referendum results, as well as the vote counting, referendum participants vote counting.

2. The election commission provides information about the time and place of the election commission meetings to the immediate higher election commission, authorized representative of each political party which registered a federal list of candidates, candidate registered in the corresponding single-mandate electoral district, and also provides free access to the relevant meeting to the persons referred to in subsections 1, 1.1 and 1.2 of this Article, and to the persons referred to in paragraphs 1 and 1.2 of this Article – also free access to the premises, where the vote count and the work with the documents stipulated in part 1 of this Article are carried out.

3. Applicants as well as representatives of the parties concerned may be present at the meetings of election commissions when the commission considers complaints (applications) and may give explanations and submit evidence on the substance of the matter being considered.

4. Election commissions shall inform voters about the results of the registration of the federal lists of candidates; about biographical and other data of registered candidates which was received by the election commission in accordance with this Federal Law; about vote returns for each registered federal list of candidates and each registered candidate.

5. On the voting day and on the days of early voting, from the time a precinct election commission begins its work and until it is notified by the higher election commission about acceptance of the protocols of vote returns and also when votes are recounted, the persons listed in parts 1 and 1.2 of this Article as well as observers, including foreign (international) observers, may be present at polling stations. Observers, including foreign (international) observers may be present in other election commissions when these commissions are determining the voting results, election results, working on voting results protocols, election results protocols and when votes are being recounted.

6. All members of an election commission, the persons indicated in parts 1 and 1.2 of this Article, observers shall be given access to the premises of a precinct election commission of any electoral precinct formed on the territory of a military unit, in a closed administrative-territorial unit, at a hospital, sanatorium, holiday hotel, detention centers or in other places of a temporary stay of voters as well as to the voting premises and premises where votes are counted.

7. Members of election commissions with advisory vote, observers, mass media representatives specified in paragraph 1.2 of this Article, if present during the voting or vote counting may have badges specifying their status, surname, first name and patronymic, the political party which has nominated the advisory members or observer and (for the mass media representatives specified in part 1.2 of this Article) the title of the organization they represent, provided this badge bears no signs of electoral campaign. Forms of breastplate of advisory member of election commission and those for observer shall be approved by the CEC.

8. In the events when this Federal Law provides for the issue to the persons listed in part 5 of this Article of the certified copies of the protocols of voting results, election results and other documents pertaining to the preparation and conduct of the elections, such copies shall be certified by the respective election commission chair, deputy chair or secretary. The person who certifies the copy shall write “accurate” or “the copy is accurate”, shall sign it, indicate his/her surname and initials, date and time of certification and shall stamp a seal of a respective election commission.