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Article 2.
 

Universal Suffrage


1. Elections in Ukraine shall be based on universal suffrage. The right to vote in an election of MPs may be exercised by Ukrainian citizens who are eighteen years old on the day of voting. Ukrainian citizens who have the right to vote are the voters.


2. A voter may exercise his or her right to vote in the election, provided that he or she is included in the voter list for the respective election precinct.


3. The documents that identify a voter and his or her Ukrainian citizenship in an election of MPs shall be: 1) a passport of a citizen of Ukraine; 2) a temporary certificate of Ukrainian citizenship (for persons who were recently granted citizenship); 3) a card (certificate) of a penitentiary institution or a pretrial detention center that must contain: the voter’s last name, first name, patronymic, day, month and year of birth, citizenship, photograph, the director’s signature and the institution’s seal (for persons who are detained in penitentiary institutions or pretrial detention centers);


CDL-REF(2016)040 4) passport of a citizen of Ukraine for traveling abroad; 5) a diplomatic passport; 6) a service passport; 7) a military service record card (exclusively for military conscripts).


4. The documents specified in Clauses 1, 2, and 7 Part 3 of this Article shall be the basis for obtaining a ballot paper and can be used in both regular and special election precincts.


5. The document mentioned in Clause 3 Part 3 of this Article shall be the basis for obtaining a ballot paper and can be used in a special election precinct established in the respective penitentiary institution or pretrial detention center.


6. The documents specified in Clauses 4 – 6 Part 3 of this Article shall be the basis for obtaining a ballot paper and can be used in foreign election district and special election precincts established on ships sailing under the National Flag of Ukraine, as well as at Ukraine’s polar station. A passport of a citizen of Ukraine may serve as the basis for obtaining a ballot paper in foreign election district created in countries that citizens of Ukraine may visit on the basis of their passports.


7. Citizens of Ukraine who have the right to vote may participate in the work of election commissions as members, in election campaigning, in observing the conduct of the election of MPs, and in other activities in accordance with the procedures set forth by this Law and other Laws of Ukraine. 8. Any direct or indirect privileges or restrictions on the electoral rights of Ukrainian citizens based on race, color of skin, political, religious and other beliefs, gender, ethnic and social origin, material status, place of residence, language or other grounds shall be prohibited. Restrictions on the participation of Ukrainian citizens in the election process, except those provided for by the Constitution of Ukraine and this Law, shall not be allowed.


9. A citizen who has been declared incompetent by a court shall not have the right to vote.


10. A voter who resides or on the election day stays in the territory of a foreign state as well as a citizen of Ukraine who temporarily changed his or her voting address (without changing the election address) for another election precinct outside the single-mandate election district to which such voter belongs on the basis of the data of the State Register of Voters on his election address, has a right to vote at the elections of MPs only in the nationwide election district. The exercise of this right shall be insured by including the voter in the list of voters at a respective election precinct stating that such voter shall receive only the ballot to voting in the nationwide election district. {Part 10 was added to Article 2 pursuant to the Law № 709-VII dd. 21.11.2013}