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Article 84.
 

Preparation for Voting


1. The precinct election commission of a regular election precinct shall notify voters included in the voter list for the election precinct of the time and place of voting by sending personal invitations in accordance with Part 2 Article 40 of this Law.


2. On the last day prior to the day of voting, each precinct election commission shall, at its meeting, assign duties to the members of the commission for the day of voting (except the head and the secretary of the commission) relating to: 1) identification of the voter and of his or her inclusion in the voter list; 2) handing the ballot papers for the nationwide election district and the single-mandate election district over to the voter; 3) supervising the voters’ entry into the booths for secret voting; 4) supervising the ballot boxes; 5) organizing voting at the places of voters’ stay of the voters; 6) supervising the process of entering and exiting the premises for voting.


3. On the day of voting, the precinct election commission shall hold a preparatory meeting no sooner than 45 minutes prior to the start of voting. At the beginning of the meeting, all persons present shall examine the tape sealing the safe (metal case) where the ballot papers are stored.


4. The head of the precinct election commission shall make each ballot box at the election precinct, one by one, available for individual examination by members of the precinct election commission, MP candidates present, their proxies, authorized persons of parties, official observers, and mass media representatives, announcing the number of each box. As soon as a ballot box has been examined, it shall be sealed or, if that is impossible, affixed with the seal of the precinct election commission; after that, a control sheet shall be dropped into the ballot box, with the indication of the number of the single-mandate district or an indication of foreign district, the number of the election precinct, the number of the ballot box, the time when the control sheet was dropped into the ballot box, and with the signatures of all precinct election commission members present, as well as of any MP candidates, their proxies, parties’ authorized persons, and official observers wishing to sign it. The signatures shall be affixed with the seal of the election commission. As soon as the control sheet has been dropped into the ballot box, the head of the election commission shall provide the next ballot box for examination, repeating the same procedure. After sealing or affixing the commission seal to the last ballot box, dropping a control sheet into it and placing the stationary (large) ballot boxes at the places assigned for them, the premises for voting shall be deemed to be ready for conducting the voting. Mobile (small) ballot boxes shall be placed in the premises for voting with their slots for putting in the ballot papers downwards, within plain view of the members of the election commission and other persons present in the premises for voting during the voting in accordance with the requirements of this Law.


{Part 4 Article 84 as amended pursuant to the Law № 709-VII dd. 21.11.2013}


5. If, during the examination of the tape sealing the safe (metal case) with the ballot papers, damage to the tape or a discrepancy between the signatures or a seal affixed to it and the [authentic] signatures and the seal specified in Part 13 Article 82 of this Law is detected, the precinct election commission shall perform the actions provided for by Part 14 Article 82 of this Law.


6. The head of the precinct election commission shall open the safe (metal case) with the ballot papers and, based on the excerpt from the protocol of the district election commission on handover of the ballot papers to the precinct election commission, or on the report(s) specified in Part 12 Article 82 of this Law, shall announce the number of the ballot papers received by the precinct election commission, separately for the nationwide election district and for the singlemandate election district. This number shall be entered by the secretary of the election commission in the respective vote counting protocol of the precinct election commission, as well as in the minutes of the meeting of the commission.


7. The head of the precinct election commission shall hand over the necessary number of ballot papers for the nationwide election district and for the single-mandate election district to the members of the precinct election commission who will be responsible for delivering the ballot papers to voters in the premises for voting or who will organize voting at voters’ place of stay. The number of ballot papers received by the members of the election commission for organizing voting at voters’ place of stay, separately for the nationwide district and for the single-mandate district, must be equal to the number of voters included in the excerpt from the voter list. The handover of the ballot papers shall be registered in a special register of a form approved by the Central Election Commission. The aforementioned members of the commission shall certify the receipt of the ballot papers by their signatures in the register and shall ensure their storage as well as adherence to the procedure for handing them over to the voters, as prescribed by this Law. No ballot paper shall be left in the safe.


8. The head of the precinct election commission shall hand the sheets of the voter list over to the members of the precinct election commission who will be responsible for working with the voter list on the day of voting. The respective members of the commission shall ensure that they are stored and used in accordance with the procedures prescribed by this Law.


9. Before the start of the voting, the precinct election commission (other than a precinct election commission of an foreign election precinct) shall inform the district election commission of: 1) the number of voters included in the voter list for the election precinct at the start of the voting; 2) the number of voters in the excerpt from the voter list for voting at their places of stay.


10. No later than at 10:00 a.m. on the day of voting, the district election commission shall send the aforementioned data related to the respective single-mandate election district to the Central Election Commission via an automated information analysis system. Immediately after the receipt of the aforementioned data, the Central Election Commission shall publish them on its official website.