Preparation for Voting on the Day of Voting (Day of Repeat Voting)
Voting shall be held on the day of voting or on the day of repeat voting from 8:00 until 20:00. At out-of-country election precincts, voting shall be held according to the local time of the country where such precincts are established.
The precinct election commission of a regular election precinct shall notify voters of the time and place of voting no later than seven days prior to the day of voting, or on the day preceding the day of voting in exceptional cases of formation of election precincts in accordance with Part five of Article 30 of this Code.
The precinct election commission shall be responsible for organizing the conduct of voting and ensuring appropriate order in the premises for voting, and for ensuring the secrecy of expressing the voters’ will during the voting.
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 which it shall open a safe (metal case) with ballot papers. The chair of the precinct election commission, 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 act(s) specified in Part nine of Article 115 of this Code, shall announce the number of the ballot papers received by the precinct election commission. This number shall be entered by the secretary of the election commission in the respective vote counting protocol of the precinct election commission.
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 is detected, the precinct election commission shall immediately notify thereof the bodies of the National Police of Ukraine and the district election commission. The precinct election commission members then shall re-count the ballot papers and produce an act thereon, which shall be signed by all members of the precinct election commission that are present at the meeting and affixed with the commission’s seal. The number of ballot papers specified in the act shall be deemed the number of ballots received by a precinct election commission.
The chair of the precinct election commission, at the commission meeting prior to the beginning of voting, shall make each ballot box at the election precinct, one by one, available for individual examination by members of the precinct election commission, candidates for the President of Ukraine present, their agents, official observers, and mass media representatives. As soon as a ballot box has been examined, it shall be sealed or affixed with the precinct election commission’s seal; after that, a control sheet shall be deposited into the ballot box, with indication of the number of the territorial district, or indication that the election district is an out-of-country election district, the number of the election precinct, the time when the control sheet was deposited into the ballot box, and with the signatures of the chair, deputy chair, secretary and other members of precinct election commission members present, as well as of any candidates, their agents, and official observers wishing to sign it. The control sheet shall be signed by aforementioned persons, and their signatures shall be affixed with the commission seal. As soon as the control sheet has been deposited into the ballot box, the chair 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, depositing 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 election commission members and other persons present in the premises for voting in accordance with the requirements of this Code.
The chair of the precinct election commission shall hand over the necessary number of ballot papers for voting to the precinct election commission members 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 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 Code. No ballot paper shall be left in the safe.
The chair of the precinct election commission shall hand the sheets of the voter list over to the precinct election commission members 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 Code.
