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Article 40
 

Procedure of the General Voter List Clarification

 

1.    Regional working groups of voter registration shall send information about citizens that changed their place of residence to working groups of voter registration of rayons, towns, city districts where citizens may be put in the voter list at their previous place of residence, by 20 October of the year preceding the year of elections of people's deputies of Ukraine.

 

2.    Working groups of voter registration of a rayon and city shall present general voter lists for inspection of citizens in the premise accessible for visitors no later than 1 November of the year preceding the year of elections. General voter lists shall be accessible for inspection until 1 January of the year of elections. Announcement on presentation of the general voter list for inspection with indication of place and time when one may examine it shall be published within the indicated period no less than once a week in local printed media, and announced by local TV and radio channels no less than twice a week.

 

3.    Working groups of registration of voters who reside or stay abroad shall compile general lists of voters by foreign states. Such voter lists shall be presented for general inspection in the premises of diplomatic or other official representative offices or consular institutions of Ukraine abroad, at the place of location of a military unit (formation) of Ukraine that is deployed abroad within time periods stipulated by paragraph 2 of this Law. The respective representative office or an institution shall publish notice on presentation of the general voter list for inspection with indication of place and time when one may examine it in the way accessible for citizens of Ukraine staying abroad.

 

4.    A voter may be put in the general voter list only once.

 

5.    Each citizen shall have the right to inspect a voter list on the premises indicated in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, and verify the information put in the list. He or she may provide information to the respective working groups of voter registration about individuals that permanently cannot move on their own because of disability or the old age, and this shall be the basis for checking of this information and, in the event they are confirmed, for inclusion of respective information in the general voter list. A citizen shall have the right to complain with rayon and city working group of voter registration and with the local court against mistakes made during compilation of the general voter list, including non-inclusion, wrongful inclusion or exclusion from the general voter list of him/her or other individuals, or presence or absence of the remark about the voter’s permanent disability of movement. A citizen staying abroad shall file a respective complaint with an official representation or a consular institution of Ukraine where he/she has inspected the general voter list. This institution or a representation shall immediately forward this complaint to the working group of registration of voters who reside or stay abroad.

 

6.    Working groups of voter registration shall clarify general voter lists. The clarification of the general voter list shall be performed from the time of presenting them for general inspection until 1 February of the year of elections.

 

7.    Clarification of the general voter list shall be performed by working groups of voter registration together with regional control groups created according to paragraph 18 of Article 39 of this Law.

 

8.    The Central Election Commission, in the time period stipulated by paragraph 6 of this Article, shall ensure preparation of the general voter list in electronic form, in particular in order to discover erroneous or multiple entries of one individual to voter lists. The Central Election Commission shall immediately notify, using technical means of communication, respective working groups of voter registration about discovered instances of erroneous or multiple inclusions of voters into the general voter list.

 

9.    For clarification of general voter lists notices stipulated by paragraphs 1 and 8 of this Article or complaints of voters submitted as a result of their familiarization with the general voter list shall be used.

 

10.       If multiple inclusions of a voter into the general voter list are discovered based on notices stipulated by paragraphs 1 and 8 of this Article, a working group of voter registration or upon its directive a respective official representation or a consular institution of Ukraine shall check availability  of the voter at the indicated place of residence. In the event of confirmation of residence of the voter at the respective address, the working group of voter registration or the respective official representation or consular institution of Ukraine shall apply with the written petition to such a voter requesting to determine the place of his or her inclusion in the general voter list. The voter shall be obligated to provide a response that eliminates the possibility of multiple inclusion of him or her in the voter list during 15 days after receipt of this petition. In case of the availability of the voter at the indicated place of residence and address is not confirmed, the working group of voter registration shall exclude such a voter from the general voter list at the indicated place of residence.

 

11. When the voter shall not provide a response to the petition stipulated by paragraph 10 of this Article, the working group of voter registration shall exclude such a voter from the general voter list at the indicated place of residence; such a voter shall be included in the general voter list of the settlement where his or her place of residence is registered according to the registration information by places of residence.

 

12. The form of the petition of the working group of voter registration concerning clarification of the settlement where the citizen, who was multiple times included in the general voter lists, shall be included in the general voter list, as well as the for of the response to the petition shall be established by the Central Election Commission.

 

13. After completion of clarification of the general voter list a working group of voter registration shall draw up a clarified general voter list in line with the form established according to paragraph 19 of Article 39 of this Law. The clarified general voter list shall be sent by a respective working group of voter registration in an electronic form to the Central Election Commission under the procedure and within the time period established by the Central Election Commission. The Central Election Commission shall provide electronic copies of the clarified general voter list to members of the central control group stipulated by paragraph 18 of Article 39 of this Law.