Procedure for Familiarizing Voters with the Preliminary Voter Lists in Regular Election Precincts and for Correcting Inaccuracies in Voter Lists
On the day following the day of the receipt of the preliminary voter list, the precinct election commission of a regular election precinct shall make it available for public review at the premises of the precinct election commission.
A precinct election commission of a regular election precinct shall send or deliver in another manner to each voter a personal invitation, received from the State Voter Register maintenance body.
Such personal invitations shall be sent or delivered no later than nine days prior to the day of voting.
A voter shall have the right to access the preliminary voter list at the premises of the precinct election commission and to verify the correctness of the information it includes.
A voter may submit an application to the precinct election commission or directly to the State Voter Register maintenance body, requesting a correction of the preliminary voter list, in particular concerning the inclusion in or the exclusion from the voter list of him or herself or any other persons, as well as concerning the presence or absence of a note indicating that the voter is permanently incapable of moving independently.
A voter shall personally submit an application concerning the circumstances specified in Part three of this Article to the precinct election commission or directly to the State Voter Register maintenance body. Should a voter not be able to submit an application personally due to health reasons (due to disability, temporary health disorder, age), the precinct election commission shall, upon application of such voter, provide for the receipt of the application from such voter in another manner. Such an application may also be submitted to the body maintaining the State Voter Register by means of electronic services in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission.
The application shall have the documents (copies of documents) certifying the information presented therein attached to it.
The application specified in Part three of this Article may be filed no later than five days prior to the day of voting and shall be considered by the election commission within one day of receipt. An application submitted after the expiry of the aforementioned term shall not be considered.
Based on the result of the consideration of the application, the precinct election commission shall adopt a decision to deliver the application to the State Voter Register maintenance body. The decision of the election commission shall immediately be sent to the respective State Voter Register maintenance body along with the voter’s application and documents (copies of documents) attached to it and shall also be issued to the applicant as well as sent to a person concerned (if it concerns a person other than the applicant) no later than on the day following the day of its adoption.
The State Voter Register maintenance body shall ensure consideration of voters’ applications in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Law of Ukraine “On the State Voter Register”. The applicant as well as a person concerned (if the voter’s application concerns another person) shall be informed of the result of the consideration of the respective application.
An administrative lawsuit requesting a correction to a voter list may be filed with a court in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Code of Administrative Adjudication of Ukraine.
A court decision requiring amendments to be made to the preliminary voter list shall no later than five days before the day of voting be presented by the voter to the respective State Voter Register maintenance body or to the respective precinct election commission for immediate delivery to such body; and after the expiry of that term, to the precinct election commission.
