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Article 77
 

Declaring Elections Void

 

1.         The Central Election Commission may declare deputy elections in single-mandate constituency void upon request of respective constituency election commission if:

            1)         In the course of deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency or during the tabulation of votes in this constituency, there were committed violations of the present Law that do not allow to accurately determine outcomes of voters’ expression of will.

2)The number of polling stations where elections in single-mandate constituency were declared void makes not less than 25 percent of the total number of polling stations set up in territory of this single-mandate constituency.

 

2.         May not be a ground for declaring void deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency violations of this Law that were intended to encourage or did encourage voters to vote for candidates not elected deputies as a result of elections in this constituency, as well as violations that were committed during the deputy elections in multi-mandate constituency within the territory of a single-mandate constituency.

 

3.         Decision on submitting request to the Central Election Commission related to declaring void deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency shall be adopted at the meeting of a constituency election commission by two thirds majority of commission’s members.

 

4.         Request to declare void deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency, which shall contain motivated reasons for declaring elections void, is submitted to the Central Election Commission together with the documents mentioned in Article 73, paragraph 6, and Article 74, paragraphs 1 and 7, of the present Law.

 

5.         The Central Election Commission may declare void deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency upon its own initiative based on grounds referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article or based on judicial decision.