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Article 27.
 

Procedure for Establishing a District Election Commission


1. A district election commission shall be established by the Central Election Commission no later than sixty-two days prior to the day of voting and shall consist of the head, the deputy head, the secretary, and other commission members, consisting of no less than twelve and no more than eighteen persons.


2. The following entities (hereinafter, nominating entities) may nominate candidates for membership in district election commissions: 1) any political party whose parliamentary faction is registered with the Apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of current convocation; 2) political parties that are subjects of the election process whose MP candidates are registered in the nationwide election district. {Clause 2 Part 2 Article 27 in the wording of the Law № 709-VII dd. 21.11.2013}


3. A district election commission shall necessarily include one representative from each nominating entity specified in Clause 1 Part 2 of this Article that has made the required submission. Any remaining seats on the district election commission shall be filled by no more than one representative from the nominating entities specified in Clause 2 Part 2 of this Article, selected by means of drawing of lots by the Central Election Commission in accordance with procedures that it establishes, no later than three days following the day of expiration of the time for filing the submissions specified in Part 4 of this Article. Persons nominated to a district election commission may be rejected [by the Central Election Commission] only on the grounds of their noncompliance with the requirements of Article 26 of this Law, violation of the requirements set forth in Parts 4 – 7 of this Article, or application of the mechanism of drawing of lots specified by this Part.


4. No later than sixty-seven days prior to the day of voting, the central governing body of a nominating entity shall submit to the Central Election Commission, in accordance with the format approved by the Central Election Commission, the paper and electronic forms of the list of persons that it wishes to nominate to the respective district election commissions (no more than one nominee for each commission). Each submission shall be signed by the head of the nominating entity (or by a person acting in his or her capacity) and affixed with the seal of the respective nominating entity.


5. Submissions of nominations to district election commissions shall include the following information on each nominee: 1) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic (if any); 2) date, month, year of birth; 3) citizenship; 4) place and address of residence, as well as contact phone numbers; 5) confirmation of his or her command of the state language; 6) educational attainment; 7) place of employment and occupied position; 8) experience in participating in the work of election commissions; {Clause 9 Part 5 Article 27 was eliminated pursuant to the Law № 709-VII dd. 21.11.2013} 10) position in the commission for which the person is nominated; {Clause 10 Part 5 Article 27 enters in force on 1 January 2013 - See Clause 1 Chapter XV of this Law} 11) information on whether the nominee has no criminal record for committing a grave or especially grave crime or a crime against citizens’ electoral rights.


6. The submission shall be accompanied by hand-written statements of the persons nominated to a district election commission, expressing their consent to participate in the work of the commission on behalf of the nominating entity; and if a person is nominated for the position of head, deputy head, or secretary of the commission, their consent to perform the respective official responsibilities.


7. Technical errors or inaccuracies contained in a submission shall not constitute a reason for the rejection of nominees. When such errors or inaccuracies are found, the Central Election Commission shall immediately notify the nominating entity. The nominating entity may submit a corrected submission that addresses the errors or inaccuracies in question on the day following the day of the receipt of the aforementioned notification. If no corrected submission is received within that time limit, the respective nominees shall be rejected.


8. If the submission of nominees to a district election commission fails to be filed within the time period prescribed by Part 4 of this Article, or if the number of persons nominated to the district election commission is less than twelve, the Central Election Commission shall appoint, within the time frame specified by Part 1 of this Article, the twelve members of the district election commission, upon proposal submitted by the Head of the Central Election Commission with observance of the requirements specified by Article 26 of this Law, necessarily having regard to the nominees proposed by the relevant nominating entities specified in Part 2 of this Article.


9. Each entity that nominates candidates to district election commissions shall have the right to a proportional share of each category of managerial positions in district election commissions. The share of managerial positions for each entity nominating candidates to district election commissions within the nationwide district shall be determined on the basis of the proportion of all selected district election commission members who were nominated by that entity. A person appointed to a district election commission upon proposal of the Head of the Central Election Commission cannot be appointed to a managerial position in that election commission, unless no submissions, or less than the required number of submissions, for appointment of respective nominees to the positions of the head, deputy head, and secretary of the commission have been submitted. Managerial positions shall be distributed between the nominating entities based on the shares determined in accordance with this Part of this Article according to procedures to be established by the Central Election Commission. Such procedures shall provide for approximate evenness of the territorial distribution of the positions received by representatives of each nominating entity.


10 The head, deputy head, and secretary of a district election commission shall represent different nominating entities specified in Part 2 of this Article.


11. The Central Election Commission shall make public its decision on the establishment and composition of the district election commissions, made in accordance with this Law, on the official website of the Central Election Commission no later than on the day following the day on which the decision was adopted. The Central Election Commission shall publish an excerpt from such decision on the establishment of the district election commissions in a particular region, including their composition, in the regional printed mass media within seven days from the date when the decision was adopted. A decision on changes in the composition of a district election commission shall be published pursuant to the procedure and within the terms provided for by this Part, but in any case no later than on the last day prior to the day of voting.