The Procedure for Transferring Election Ballots to Election Commissions
1. A constituency election commission shall receive election ballots from the Central Election Commission at the meeting of the constituency election commission. The constituency election commission shall complete the minutes on the receipt of election ballots according to the form established by the Central Election Commission. The minutes shall be completed in triplicate, and every copy of the minutes shall be signed by all members of the constituency election commission and by representatives of the Central Election Commission present during the handing over of election ballots. The first copy of the minutes shall be delivered to the Central Election Commission, the second shall be kept by the constituency election commission, and the third copy shall be at once posted in the premises of the constituency election commission for general acquaintance.
2. No earlier than three days before the election day, the constituency election commission shall hand over the election ballots to polling station election commissions. On behalf of every polling station election commission, no less than three members of such polling station election commission who must be members of different political parties (electoral blocs) shall receive election ballots.
3. A minutes shall be completed regarding the handing over of election ballots from the constituency election commission to polling station election commissions according to the form established by the Central Election Commission, indicating the following:
1) the single-mandate election constituency number;
2) the polling station number;
3) Total number of voters in the polling station in accordance with the list of voters as of the date of completion of the minutes;
4) numbers of election ballots handed over to the polling station for voting in multi-mandate election constituency and in single-mandate election constituency;
5) surnames and signatures of the members of the polling station election commission who received the election ballots.
4. The minutes of handing over of election ballots to polling station election commissions shall be completed in triplicate and shall be signed by all members of the constituency election commission present at the meeting. The first copy of the minutes shall be sent to the Central Election Commission, the second shall be kept by the constituency election commission, and the third copy shall be at once posted in the premises of the constituency election commission for general acquaintance. An excerpt from the minutes shall be handed over to every polling station election commission that received election ballots.
5. To polling station election commissions formed in diplomatic and other Ukrainian official missions and consular institutions abroad and in military units (formations) stationed beyond Ukrainian frontiers, election ballots shall be delivered in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission.
6. Election ballots for voting in multi-mandate election constituency and single-mandate election constituency shall be delivered to polling station election commissions in numbers based on the total number of citizens entered in the list of voters for the respective polling station, supplemented by a reserve the volume of which shall be established by the Central Election Commission.
7. Every member of the constituency election commission, every person empowered to act for a political party (electoral bloc), the candidate for people’s deputy or the person empowered to act for such candidate shall be entitled to receiving copies of the minutes on the receipt of election ballots from the Central Election Commission and on the delivery of election ballots to the polling station election commission under signatures of the chairperson and the secretary of the polling station election commission and the commission seal but no more than one copy of each minutes per each political party (electoral bloc) or each candidate for people’s deputy registered in the single-mandate election constituency they represent.
8. Members of the polling station election commission shall transport election ballots to the premises of the polling station election commission accompanied by an officer of the internal affairs organs.
9. On the day of receipt by the polling station election commission of election ballots from the constituency election commission at the meeting of the polling station election commission, members of the polling station election commission shall in the designated places of each election ballot, inscribe the polling station number and affix the stamp of the polling station election commission, and in the designated places of each control check, the polling station number.
10. Election ballots shall be kept in the premises of the polling station election commission in a safe (metal cabinet) sealed by a tape inscribed with signatures of all members of the polling station election commission present at the meeting and stamped with the stamp of the polling station election commission.
