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Article 40
 

Election Ballot

1. The election ballot must include: in a single-mandate election constituency - the name of the rada to which the elections or deputies are being conducted, number of the election constituency, and for the elections of village, settlement, city chairman - respectively the name of the village, settlement, city wherein the chairman is being elected; in the multi-mandate election constituency - the name of the rada to which the elections of deputies are being conducted, the number of the election constituency, the number of mandates in this constituency.

2. The election ballot for voting in single-mandate and multi-mandate election constituencies shall inscribe, in an alphabetical order, all registered candidates indicating surname, first name, patronymic, year of birth, party membership, position (occupation), place of work.

3. On the election ballot, an empty square shall be placed to the right of the surname of every candidate. After all the candidates’ names, the following entry shall be contained: "Do not support any of the candidates". An empty square shall be placed to the right of and opposite to this entry.

4. The election ballots shall be produced according to the forms established by the Central Election Commission. Ballots for elections of deputies of different links of radas, of village, settlement, city chairmen must differ by paper color or by ink color used to print the ballot.

5. The territorial election commission can, if necessary, change the size of election ballot for elections of rada deputies, of village, settlement, city chairman depending on the number of registered deputies, or, without changing its size, continue printing their names on the back side of the ballot using a footnote on the first page: "List is continued on the back side". In this case, the following superscription shall be on the back side of the ballot: "List is continued here, see the beginning on the back".

6. If a candidate has resigned from the nomination after election ballots were printed out, the constituency (territorial) election commission shall adopt a decision to reprint election ballots, or to cross out the respective candidate’s name from the election ballot.

7. Election ballots are documents of strict accountability and are to be accounted. Chairman, deputy chairman, secretary and members of the respective election commissions shall bear personal responsibility for their storage and use.

8. On the eve of voting, in order to protect election ballots from their potential forgery, chairman and secretary of the polling station election commission shall put their signatures on each one of them.