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Article 44
 

Procedure of Making Decisions on Amending Voter List at Regular Polling Stations

 

1.    Upon request of a commission member, candidate for a deputy, authorized representative of a party (bloc), a polling station or district election commission may file an inquiry with a head of the respective working group of voter registration for clarification and verification of information concerning place of residence of the voter or other his/her data. The head of the respective working group of voter registration should provide such data no later than on the third day after being inquired by the election commission, but no later than three days before Election Day.

 

2.    A polling station commission shall make decision on amending a voter list based on citizen’s complaints as well based on data received under procedure stipulated by paragraph 1 of this article. The polling station commission may decide on amending a voter list no later than three days before Election Day.

 

3.    In two days before Election Day a polling station commission shall hand over to a district election commission at its meeting the list of voters, who were put in the voter list within the respective polling station, and the list of voters, who were excluded from a voter list according to the polling station decision commission. The said lists, being compiled in the form of a voter list, shall be accompanied with decisions of a polling station commission on excluding individuals from and putting in a voter list and documents, based on which respective decisions were passed. At least three polling station commission’s members representing different parties (blocs), including a commission’s head, and in case of his/her absence deputy head or a commission’s secretary, shall hand over the said lists and documents on behalf of a polling station commission. An act on handing over such lists and documents shall be executed in two copies in form and under the procedure, stipulated by paragraph 8 of article 35 of this Law.

 

4.    No later than six days before Election Day, following entities shall provide a district election commission with information in a form stipulated by paragraph 15 of article 39 of this Law:

 

1)    heads of the respective territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine - on citizens of Ukraine who have changed their place of residence within a respective territory for the period form 1 July of the year preceding the year of elections;

 

2)    heads of territorial bodies of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine - on citizens of Ukraine, who used to reside within the respective territory and died after 1 July of the year preceding the year of elections, and on citizens of Ukraine who changed their first, second names and patronymics within the said period;

 

3)    heads of local military commissariats - on citizens of Ukraine, who used to reside within the respective territory and were conscripted after 1 September of the year preceding the year of elections, and on citizens who opted out within the same period;

 

4)    commanders of military units (formations), deployed within the territory of a respective city or rayon – on changes in the list of citizens of Ukraine residing within territory of the respective military unit (formation), including information on enlisted personnel who will not be opted out until Election Day, as compared with submission, being referred to in sub-paragraph 5 of paragraph 12 Article 39 of this Law;

 

5)    heads of local bodies of the State Department for Execution of Sentences - on changes in contingent of citizens of Ukraine serving their terms at penitentiary institutions located within the respective territory as compared with submission, being referred to in sub-paragraph 6 of paragraph 12 Article 39 of this Law;

 

6)    heads of local custody and care bodies — on citizens of Ukraine, who were declared incompetent by courts after 1 July of the year preceding the year of elections, and on citizens in relation to whom a court cancelled decision on declaring them incompetent for the same period;

 

7)    heads of specialized institutions being engaged in registration of homeless citizens in accordance with the law of Ukraine On Principles of Social Protection of Homeless Citizens and Street Children on citizens of Ukraine who were registered at the respective legal address after 1 July of the year preceding the year of elections, and on citizens of Ukraine, whose registration at such address was cancelled during the same period.

 

5.    A district election commission shall adopt a decision on putting a voter in the voter list or on excluding a voter from the voter list in the respective polling station of a territorial election district by results of a citizen’s complaint consideration in accordance with paragraph 6 of Article 43 of this Law, and also based on information being referred to in paragraph 1 of this article, submissions of bodies and institutions, as referred to in paragraph 4 of this article, notices received from district election commissions on putting voters on the voter list at another polling station, as referred to in paragraphs 9 and 10 of article 43 of this Law.

 

6.    Based on decisions adopted according to paragraph 5 of this article and paragraph 23 of article 42 of this Law, as well as based on a court’s decision submitted to a district election commission in accordance with paragraph 7 of article 43 of this Law, a head, deputy head or a secretary of a district election commission shall compile lists of voters to be put in a voter list at each regular polling station, and list of voters to be excluded from a voter list at each polling station of a territorial election district no later than three days before Election Day. The list shall indicate reasons for putting a voter on or excluding from a list. Each list shall be drawn up in two copies in the form of a voter list of a polling station. The reliability of such voter lists shall be certified with signatures of the head and secretary of a district election commission and a commission’s seal affixed to each page of a list.

 

7.    A district election commission at the meeting held according to paragraph 3 of this article shall hand over to each polling station commission one copy of the respective lists as referred to in paragraph 6 of this article. An act on handing over the said lists to a polling station commission shall be executed in two copies in form and under the procedure stipulated by paragraph 8 of article 35 of this Law. The second copy of each list shall be deposited with a district election commission.