Procedure for Verification of Preliminary Voter Lists in Regular Election Precincts

1. The heads of the bodies, establishments, or institutions specified by Article 22 of the Law on the State Voter Register shall, no later than ten days prior to the day of voting, submit to the State Voter Register maintenance body the information specified in Article 22 of the Law on the State Voter Register in a form approved by the Central Election Commission.

2. The information specified by Part 1 of this Article shall be submitted in the electronic and paper forms as a list with a continuous numbering of both entries and pages. The authenticity of the submitted information shall be certified on each page by the signature of the head of the respective body, establishment, or institution and by the respective seal affixed thereto.

3. No later than five days prior to the day of voting, the members of district and precinct election commissions shall submit to the State Voter Register maintenance body having jurisdiction over the location of the respective election precinct or of their own election address applications seeking a temporary change in the voting place without a change of the election address in accordance with Part 3 Article 7 of the Law on the State Voter Register. Members of district election commissions shall be included in the voter list for the election precinct closest to the location of the district election commission of which they are members. Members of precinct election commissions shall be included in the voter list for the election precinct in which they are members of the election commission.

4. The State Voter Register maintenance body shall compile a corrected voter list, based on the information submitted in accordance with Part 1 of this Article and decisions of the respective election commissions on the establishment of the precinct election commissions of special election precincts (as regards inclusion of the members of the precinct election commissions in the voter lists for the respective special election precinct), the results of consideration of the voters’ applications, notifications of inclusion of voters in the voter list for the special election precinct issued by the precinct election commissions of special election precincts, applications of members of the district and precinct election commissions submitted in accordance with Part 3 of this Article, and court judgments received no later than five days prior to the day of voting.

5. The corrected voter lists shall be produced in accordance with the Law of Ukraine On the State Voter Register, in two copies, pursuant to the requirements of Parts 3 and 4 Article 39 of this Law, and shall contain a column for the signatures of voters certifying the receipt of ballot papers.

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6. One paper copy of the corrected voter list shall be delivered to the respective precinct election commission, in accordance to the procedure specified by Part 5 Article 39 of this Law, no later than two days prior to the day of voting. A second copy of the corrected voter list shall be stored at the State Voter Register maintenance body.