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Article 70
 

The Polling Station Commission Defines the Election as Void

 

1. A polling station commission may define the election at the polling station in a single- and/or multi-mandate constituency as void if it has established a violation of some of the requirements of this Law that makes it impossible to establish the results of the voters’ expression of their will with accuracy. The polling station commission may define the election at a polling station as void under any of the following circumstances:

1) illegal voting (the casting of a ballot into the ballot box for the voter by another person, except for cases stipulated by the fourteenth paragraph of Article 66 of this Law; voting by persons who have no right to vote; voting by persons who are not entered in the voter list for that constituency or are entered into it without a good and valid reason; voting by the same person more than once) in an amount that exceeds 10 percent of the number of voters who took part in the voting at the poling station in the relevant district;

2) the finding of ballots in the ballot boxes in an amount that exceeds, by more than 10 percent, the number of the voters who took part in the voting at the polling station in the relevant district;

3) the destruction or damaging of the ballot box (boxes) that makes it impossible to determine the content of the ballots should the number of those ballots exceed 10 percent of the number of voters who took part in the voting at the polling station in the relevant constituency.

 

2. Should it establish any of the circumstances referred to in the first paragraph of this Article, the polling station commission shall draw up an act for each particular case. The act shall be signed by all present commission members and sealed with the commission’s seal. These act or acts shall be grounds for the consideration by the polling station commission of the question of defining the voting at the polling station in that constituency as void.

 

3. Should the commission decide to define the voting at the polling station in a multi- and/or single-mandate constituency as void, its protocol of the tabulation of votes at the polling station in a multi-mandate all-state election constituency shall contain only the information referred to in items 1-6 of the second paragraph of Article 69 of this Law, and the protocol of the tabulation of votes at the polling station in a single-mandate constituency – only the information referred to in items 1-6 of the third paragraph of said Article. A dash shall be put in place of other data. The polling station commission shall draw up the protocols according to the procedure set forth by Article 69 of this Law.

 

4. Ballots shall be packed separately for the single- and the multi-mandate constituencies. The packages shall have the inscriptions “Ballots of the single-mandate constituency” or “Ballots of the multi-mandate constituency”, the number of the single-mandate constituency, the number of the polling station, the number of ballots packed, the date and time of packing, the signatures of the polling station commission members, and the commission’s seal.

 

5. The decision of the polling station commission to define the voting at the polling station in the multi-mandate and/or single-mandate constituencies as null and void, and the act (s) on the basis of which that decision was made shall be attached to the protocols of the tabulation of votes at the polling station in the relevant constituencies.