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Article 45
 

1. The signatures collected in support of the nomination of a federal list of candidates, nomination (self-nomination) of the candidate, shall be entered in the signature sheets, which are manufactured in compliance with Appendix 2, 3 and 4 of this Federal law.


2. Payment of production of the signature lists is carried out only from the relevant electoral fund. A political party, a candidate is entitled to start collecting signatures of voters from the date of payment for signature sheets.


3. If the candidate for single-mandate electoral district is a deputy and exercises his powers on a temporary basis, additional information shall be specified in the signature list that the candidate is a deputy on a temporary basis, and the name of the relevant representative body.


4. In case if the candidate had or has a criminal record, the signature sheet shall contain information on the candidate's conviction.


5. If a candidate indicated his affiliation with a political party or other public association and its membership in the political party or this public association, information about that are specified in the signature sheet, in accordance with Part 6 of Article 41, paragraph 1 of Part 5 of Article 42 of the Federal Law.


6. In support of the nomination (self-nomination) of the candidate it shall be allowed to collect signatures only those voters whose place of residence is located in the territory of a single-mandate electoral district in which the candidate was nominated.


7. The right to collect signatures belongs to legally capable citizen of the Russian Federation who has reached the age of 18 years at the time of collecting the signatures. A political party, a candidate may conclude the agreement on the collection of signatures with a person involved in the collection of signatures. Payment of this work is carried out only from the relevant electoral fund.


8. Political parties, candidates are required to compile a list of persons to collect voters' signatures on paper and in machine-readable form in the form prescribed by the CEC. The list shall contain information on each person: surname, first name and patronymic, date of birth, place of residence, series, number and date of issue of the passport or the document replacing the passport, the name or code of the issuer, as well as put signature of the signature collector. Information about the persons who collect voters' signatures, and signatures of the persons shall be in the list drawn up on paper, certified by a notary.


9. The collection of signatures is carried out at the place of residence and other places where election campaigning and collecting signatures are not prohibited by federal law.


10. The involvement of state bodies, bodies of local government, bodies of companies regardless of the legal form, voting members of election commissions in the collection of signature of voters shall be prohibited. It shall be strictly forbidden to force voters to give signatures or remunerate them for this in any form. It shall be forbidden to collect signatures at the place of work, study, during and at the place of payment of salaries, pensions, benefits, scholarships and other fees, and during philanthropic actions. Signatures collected with violation of this provision are invalid.


11. A voter shall put his/her signature, indicate the date, his/her surname, first name and patronymic, the year of birth (and, if attained the age of 18 on the voting day, the month and the day of birth), residence address, passport number or the number of an equivalent identity document. The signature and the date shall be written by a voter with his/her own hand. The information on a voter putting his signature into a signature sheet may at the request of the voter be written by a signature collector. The said information shall be fixed in handwriting with no use of pencils being allowed. The voter puts himself the signature and the date of its application. The voter has the right to sign in support of the nomination of various federal lists of candidates, nomination (self-nomination) of different candidates, but only once in support of the nomination of the same federal list of candidates, nomination (self-nomination) of the same candidate.


12. Each signature list with voter signatures collected in support of the nomination of a federal list of candidates, self-nomination of the candidate must be certified by the signature of the signature collector. When certifying the signature list the person who collects signatures of voters shall personally put his surname, first name and patronymic, date of birth, place of residence, series and number and date of issue of the passport or the document replacing the passport, the name or code of the issuer, as well as his signature and the date of its submission.


13. Each signature list with voter signatures collected in support of the nomination of a federal list of candidates, self-nomination of the candidate must be certified by the signature of the authorized representative of political party. While certifying the signature sheet an authorized representative of a political party shall in one’s handwriting write his/her surname, first and middle name, shall sign the sheet and put the date.


14. During the collection of signatures of voters a signature sheet may be filled in on both the front and reverse side of the sheet. The reverse side shall be deemed the continuation of the front page with successive numeration of signatures; and the certifying signatures of and information on a signature collector and an authorized representative of a political party shall be placed on the reverse side immediately after the signatures of voters.


15. After the completion of the collection of signatures authorized representatives of a political party shall separately count the number of signatures collected in each subject of the Russian Federation where signatures of voters were collected, the number of signatures collected outside the Russian Federation and the total number of signatures collected. The counting results shall be documented in the protocol (in paper and machine-readable form) on results of signature collection in the form set forth by the CEC. The protocol shall be signed by an authorized representative of the political party.


16. The signature sheets with voter signatures collected in support of the nomination shall be submitted to the CEC, and in support of the nomination (self-nomination) of the candidate - to the DEC. Signature sheets shall be submitted in the numbered and stitched form.