Making Changes to Information Posters and Information Brochures of Party Organizations that are Electoral Subjects

1. In case the territorial election commission decides to cancel the registration of a candidate for the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, or the respective oblast, rayon, city, rayon in city, village or settlement council (of a territorial community with 10,000 or more voters) or in the case if a candidate withdraws from the election in the time period, during which the information posters and information brochures of party organizations that are electoral subjects are produced, or after the production thereof, but within the time period, when the remaining time is insufficient to allow re-printing of information posters and information brochures of the parties that are electoral subjects, the territorial election commission shall make a decision on making changes to the information posters and information brochures of a party that is an electoral subject. The territorial election commission shall immediately communicate such a decision to the respective territorial election commissions so that the precinct election commissions can make the respective amendments.

Such amendments to information posters and information brochures of party organizations that are electoral subjects shall be made by members of the precinct election commissions of that territorial election district to the territorial electoral list of candidates in which the respective candidate was included by applying the “Withdrawn” stamp at a meeting of the precinct election commission. In this case, an election commission member appointed by the commission shall affix the “Withdrawn” stamp to the respective candidate’s number and last name in each information poster of the respective party organization that is an electoral subject, as well as in each information brochure of a party organization that is an electoral subject (such stamp shall be affixed in two places: in the unified electoral list and in the respective territorial electoral list). The stamp shall be affixed in a horizontal position and shall not cover another candidate’s number and last name.

It shall be prohibited to make amendments to information posters and information brochures of parties that are electoral subjects without a decision of the respective territorial election commission.

Each voter shall be informed of the amendments made to information posters and information brochures of party organizations that are electoral subjects at the time when the ballot paper is being issued to him or her.

The form of the “Withdrawn” stamp shall be approved by the Central Election Commission no later than twenty-six days prior to the day of voting. Territorial election commissions shall, not later than seven days before election day, ensure the production of such stamps or use stamps that have been made earlier. The "Withdrawn" stamps are handed over to the respective territorial election commissions or directly to the precinct election commissions at the same time as information posters and information booklets of party organizations of parties that are subjects of the election process. Stamps are stored in the respective territorial election commission.

The "Withdrawn" stamp shall be handed over by the territorial election commission to all precinct election commissions simultaneously with the respective decision on making changes to the information posters and information booklets of party organizations.

2. If the information posters of a party organization of a party that is subject of the election process and/or information brochures of a party organization of a party that is subject of the election process are amended without a decision of the territorial election commission or changes do not comply with such a decision, the precinct election commission removes and destroys such posters, about which fact an act is completed at its meeting in two copies. The act shall indicate the number of received information posters of a party organization that is subject of the election process and/or information brochures of a party organization that is subject of the election process, the number of seized and destroyed information posters and/or information brochures and the names of the persons responsible for it. One copy of this act shall be immediately transferred to the respective territorial election commission for transfer to the territorial Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, or an oblast, rayon, city, rayon in city, village or settlement election commission; the second copy shall be kept in the precinct election commission.

At the same time, the territorial Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast, rayon, city, rayon in city, village, settlement election commission decides on providing the election precinct with the required number of information posters of the party organization that is subject of the election process and/or information brochures of the party organization that is subject of the election process. If necessary, the territorial election commission may decide to produce an additional number of information posters and/or information brochures of the party organization that is subject of the election process.

3. It shall, on the day of voting, be prohibited to use the information posters and/or the information brochures of a party organization that is subject of the election process, in which no amendments were made pursuant to the decision of the territorial election commission, or in which amendments were made not in compliance with such a decision.