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Article 23
 

Authority of the Constituency Election Commission



The authority of a constituency election commission shall begin on the day a decision was passed to form said commissions and shall expire ten days after an official publication of the election results by the Central Election Commission.





The constituency election commission shall:



            1) provide preparation and holding of elections of deputies in a single-mandate constituency and also in a multi-mandate constituency within the boundaries of a single-mandate constituency;

            2) exercise control, within the limits of the territory of the respective single-mandate constituency, over the observance and uniform application of the deputies election law by the voters, constituency election commissions, bodies of state authority and bodies of local self-government, public officers and officials of those bodies, enterprises, institutions, organizations and their officials, parties (blocs of parties), and nominated candidates for deputies;

            3) provide legal, organizational and procedural as well as technical assistance to the constituency election commissions, and arrange for training of the members of those commissions on the issues related to the organization of the electoral process;

            4) register the candidates for deputy in a single-mandate constituency and issues them the certificates in accordance with the form set by the Central Election Commission;

            5) register the authorized persons of the candidates for deputies who are registered in a single-mandate constituency and issue them the certificates in accordance with the form set by the Central Election Commission;

            6) create polling stations, except for the cases stipulated in Paragraphs 4, 5 and 7 of Article 17 hereof, and also establish their boundaries and unified numbering in a single-mandate constituency;

            7) form the polling station election commissions in compliance with this Law;

            8) convene, on its own initiative and whenever necessary, meetings of the polling station election committee;

            9) settle the matters related to the use of funds of the State Budget of Ukraine, allocated for the preparation and holding of elections, in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission;

            10) exercise control over the activities of the bodies of executive power and local self-government bodies as to the provision of premises for voting, transportation, means of communication and other equipment and facilities; also consider and resolve, within its competence, other issues associated with the logistic support of elections within the territory of the given constituency;

            11) ensure printing of the information posters carrying the biographical data of the candidates for deputy registered in a single-mandate constituency, and deliver those to the polling station election commissions;

12) assist, together with the appropriate bodies of executive power and local self-government bodies, in conducting meetings of the candidates for deputy, their authorized persons, and the authorized persons of the parties (blocs of parties) with the voters at enterprises, institutions and organizations of all forms of ownership, and, in the cases stipulated by this Law, also organize such meetings;

13) approve the text of the election ballot used for voting in a single-mandate constituency;

14) supply the polling station election commissions with the forms of the absentee ballots and election ballots;

15) ensure making of seals and stamps and their delivery to the polling station election commissions;

16) determine the results of voting in a multi-mandate constituency within the limits of a single-mandate constituency;

17) determine and make public the results of elections of deputies in a single-mandate constituency, and pass the decision on the election of the deputy in this constituency;

18) declare the vote conducted at the polling station void and call a revote in the cases provided for by this Law;

19) submit a request to the Central Election Commission seeking to declare the elections of a deputy in a single-mandate constituency void in the cases provided for by this Law and in accordance with the procedure established hereby;

20) hear the information provided by the polling station election commissions, the local bodies of executive power and the local self-government bodies as to the preparation for and holding of the elections;

21) keep records of the official observers who are registered in a single-mandate constituency;

22) consider appeals, applications and complaints regarding the preparation and holding of the elections in a single-mandate constituency and make relevant decisions;

23) ensure the deposit of the election and other documents with the respective state archive institution in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission;

24) exercise other authority in accordance with this Law and other laws of Ukraine.