Requirements to Ballot Papers for Certain Types of Local Elections

1. In the ballot paper for voting in a territorial election district within a unified multi-member district for the election of members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, an oblast, rayon, rayon in city, as well as city, village or settlement council (of a territorial community with 10,000 or more voters), the names of the party organizations shall be placed in the order of their numbers determined by way of drawing lots, which is conducted by the respective territorial election commission in accordance with a procedure established by the Central Election Commission, with the participation of the representatives of party organizations in the respective election commission, candidates, authorized persons of party organizations in the unified multimember election district after the end of registration of candidates for local councils and before the approval of the text of the ballot. The ordinal number of the party organization, determined by the results of the lottery, may not be changed during the respective election process. In the ballot paper in one row, alternately from left to right is indicated:

1) the number of each party organization determined by lot;

2) the full name of the respective party organization, surname, name and patronymic of the candidate included in the unified electoral list under the first number without specifying the number;

3) two squares: an empty square – for expressing the will for the party organization and a square with a stencil – for expressing the will for the candidates included in the respective territorial electoral list of the party organization;

4) electoral list with surnames, initials of all candidates and their ordinal numbers in a stencil format from top to bottom, according to which they are included in the respective territorial electoral list of the party organization, in two columns.

2. In the ballot paper for voting in a multi-member district for elections of members of city, village or settlement council (of a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters) and in a unified singlemember district for elections of village, settlement or city mayor, the candidates have the ordinal numbers corresponding the alphabetical order of their surnames, first names (all first names) and patronymics (if any), the subject of nomination of the candidate, if the candidate is nominated by selfnomination, "self-nominated", shall be indicated, and information on the year of birth, position and place of residence. To the right of the ordinal number and surname of each candidate is an empty square.