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Article 72
 

Procedure of the Accepting and Considering of Polling Station Commission Documents by the District Commission

 

1. Protocols of the tabulation of votes at the polling station in a multi-mandate all-state election constituency and the tabulation of votes at the polling station in a single-mandate election constituency, as well as documents from polling station commissions referred to in the tenth paragraph of Article 69 of this Law, shall be accepted and considered at a meeting of the district election commission.

 

2. The meeting of the district election commission shall begin from the moment of the first arrival of a protocol of the tabulation of votes at a polling station and other documents from that polling station and continue without a break to the establishment of results of the voting in the single-mandate constituency. At that time, district election commission members may not be engaged in the fulfilment of other functions.

 

3. If the protocol of the tabulation of votes at the polling station in the relevant constituency meets the requirements of this Law, all the information contained therein shall be announced.

 

4. Should the protocol of the tabulation of votes at the polling station in the relevant constituency reveal any corrections, errors or inaccuracies, the election district commission may oblige the polling station commission to make amendments to that protocol in accordance with the seventh paragraph of Article 69 of this Law. While the polling station commission is considering this issue, the copies of protocols of the tabulation of votes at the polling station in the relevant constituency and the documents attached thereto shall be kept in custody by the district election commission.

 

5. The polling station commission shall consider, within the deadlines established by the district election commission, the issue of making amendments to the protocol. The protocol with the mark “Corrected” shall be transported and delivered to the district election commission in accordance with the procedure set forth by Article 71 of this Law.

 

6. If it has acts properly completed by authorized representatives of a party (bloc), candidate deputies, their authorized persons and official observers from parties (blocs) or candidate deputies registered in a single-mandate constituency about violations of the requirements of this Law in the course of voting and/or tabulation of votes at the polling station that put the results of the tabulation of votes at that polling station into doubt, the district election commission may decide to conduct a repeat tabulation of the votes at the polling station in the multi- and/or the single-mandate constituencies.

 

7. Should there be an act or a written petition from persons referred to in the first paragraph of Article 71 of this Law to the effect that requirements of this Law were violated in the process of transporting the protocols of the tabulation of votes at the polling station and other related documents to the district election commission, the election commission may, and if there are signs that the packages with documents have been opened, should decide to repeat the tabulation of votes at that polling station for the multi-mandate and/or the single-mandate constituencies.

 

8. Until the repeat tabulation of votes, the protocols of the tabulation of votes at the polling station in relevant constituencies and other related documents of the polling station commission shall be kept in custody at the premises of the meeting of the district election commission.

 

9. The district election commission shall conduct the repeat tabulation of votes at the polling station in a multi- and/or single-mandate constituencies with the necessary participation of polling station commission members, who submit all election documents, after it has considered and accepted protocols from all polling station commissions. All members of the polling station commission shall have the right to take part in the repeat tabulation of votes at the polling station by the district election commission, and authorized persons of parties (blocs), candidate deputies, their authorized persons, official observers from parties (blocs), and candidate deputies registered in the relevant single-mandate constituency, may be present.  

 

10. Should it make a repeat tabulation of the votes at a given polling station, the district election commission shall draw up a protocol about the repeat tabulation of votes in accordance with the form established by the Central Election Commission.

 

11.  Protocols of the repeat tabulation of votes at the relevant polling station in a multi-mandate and/or single-mandate constituency shall be drawn up by the district election commission in a number of copies that is greater by four than the number of persons constituting the district election commission. The copies of the protocols shall be numbered, each having the dame legal force. These protocols shall be signed by the present members of the district election commission and the members of the polling station commission who took part in the repeat tabulation of votes. The data in the protocols shall be announced. The candidate deputies, their authorized persons, official observers from parties (blocs) and candidate deputies registered in single-mandate constituencies that were present at the tabulation of votes shall have the right to sign the first copy of each protocol.

 

12. Should the district election commission find circumstances referred to in the first paragraph of Article 70 of this Law to take place at a relevant polling station, or other circumstances which result in the impossibility of establishing the results of the voters’ expression of will with accuracy, the district election committee may decide to determine the voting at a polling station in a multi- and/or single-mandate constituency as null and void. In that case, the protocol on the repeat tabulation of votes at that polling station in a multi- and/or single-mandate constituency shall be drawn up in accordance with the procedure stipulated in the eleventh paragraph of this Article. It shall only contain the information referred to in items 1-6 of the second paragraph and items 1-6 of the third paragraph of Article 69 of this Law.

 

13. The first copy of the protocol of the district election commission of the repeat tabulation of votes at the relevant polling station in the relevant constituency, together with the relevant protocol of the polling station commission on the tabulation of votes at the polling station the voting at which was defined as void, and the decision of the district election commission to define the voting as void in the multi-mandate and/or single-mandate constituency shall be attached to the protocol of the district election commission on the results of the voting in the multi-mandate all-state election constituency and/or the protocol of the district election commission on the results of the election of the People’s Deputy of Ukraine in the relevant single-mandate constituency. The second copy of the protocol of the district election commission on the repeat tabulation of votes at the relevant polling station in the relevant constituency shall be kept with the secretary of the district election commission. The third copy shall be given to the poling station commission. The fourth copy shall be put out at once for general information in the premises of the district election committee. The rest of the copies shall be given to members of the district election commission, one copy each. The data of the protocol of the district election commission about the repeat tabulation of votes at the relevant polling station in the relevant election district shall be made public.