Requirements for Members of a District or Precinct Election Commission

1. Voters residing in the territory of Ukraine may be members of a district election commission or a precinct election commission of a regular or a special election precinct.

2. A voter may be a member of only one election commission responsible for the preparation and conduct of an election of MPs, an election of the President of Ukraine, an election of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the deputies of local councils, village, town and city mayors, or commission of a national or local referendum, if the election process of the aforementioned elections or referendum takes place simultaneously with the election of MPs. {Part 2 Article 26 as amended pursuant to the Law № 1184-VII dd. 08.04.2014}

3. A district or precinct election commission may not include MP candidates; parties’ representatives in the Central Election Commission; parties’ authorized persons; proxies of MP candidates in a single-mandate district; official observers; officials of state executive bodies, state bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or local self-government bodies; employees of courts or law enforcement bodies; citizens detained in penitentiary institutions or pretrial detention centers; or citizens that have a criminal record for committing a grave or especially grave crime or a crime against citizens’ electoral rights, unless such a record has been cleared or canceled pursuant to the procedure established by law.

4. A precinct election commission of a special election precinct established in an inpatient care establishment or penitentiary institution or pretrial detention center may not have among its members the employees of the respective establishment or institution.

5. If an election process of any other elections or a referendum process takes place simultaneously with the election of MPs, a district or precinct election commission may not include candidates running in these other elections, their authorized persons or proxies, or authorized persons and representatives of other subjects of the respective election process, or official observers. {Part 5 Article 26 as amended pursuant to the Law № 1184-VII dd. 08.04.2014}

6. The Central Election Commission shall appoint the head, deputy head, and secretary of a district election commission at the time that it establishes the commission.

7. {Paragraph 1 Part 7 Article 26 was eliminated pursuant to the Law № 709-VII dd. 21.11.2013} The secretary of a district or precinct election commission must have command of the state language to the extent necessary for the management of the records of the commission.