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Article 46
 

Procedure of Compiling of and Clarifying of Voter List at Special Polling Stations

 

1.    At special polling stations (except polling station in the hospitals) the voter lists shall be compiled no later than 20 days before Election Day by the respective polling station commissions in form stipulated by paragraph 2 of Article 41 of this Law based on information submitted by heads of respective institutions, bodies, captains of vessels, commanders of military units (formations), where such polling stations have been created.

 

2.    At special polling stations created in the hospitals the voter lists shall be compiled no later than 10 days before Election Day by the respective polling station commissions in form stipulated by paragraph 2 of article 41 of this Law based on information submitted by heads of respective institutions. The voters who shall leave the hospital before Election Day shall not be included into submission and a voter list at such polling station.

 

3.    Information, as referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article, shall be submitted in one copy bearing a signature of a head of the respective institution, body, captain of a vessel, commander of a military unit (formation) and shall be certified with a respective seal. Head of the respective institution, body, captain of a vessel, commander of a military unit (formation) no later than 23 days and head of the hospital – no later than 11 days before Election Day shall ensure submission of the said information to a polling station commission and reliability thereof.

 

4.    A polling station commission of a special polling station shall provide one copy for public inspection at the premise of a polling station commission on the following day after execution of a voter list at a polling station.

 

5.    Citizens shall look through the voter list at a special polling station and complain against any errors revealed under the procedure stipulated by article 43 of this Law.

 

6.    After a voter list was compiled at a special polling station, one copy of it shall be handed over to the respective district election commission. The content of the voter list at the polling station created on the vessel navigating under the State Flag of Ukraine or at a polar station of Ukraine may be handed over using technical means of communication.

 

7.    If a voter went to a hospital later than 10 days before Election Day, but earlier than two days before Election Day, a respective polling station commission shall clarify a voter list by putting a voter to a list based on information submitted immediately by the head of the respective institution, whose signature shall be certified with a seal of the respective institution. On putting the voter in a voter list a district election commission shall be informed immediately.

 

8.    A voter who went to a hospital in the same settlement, where he/she resides, may complain to election commission of the regular polling station, where he/she is put in a voter list, for voting at the place of his/her stay under the procedure stipulated by paragraph 5 of article 84 of this Law. In such a case, he/she shall not be put in a voter list at a special polling station.

 

9.    A district election commission or a polling station commission of a special polling station on demand of a commission member, candidate for a deputy, authorized representative of a party (bloc)  shall have a right to file a request with heads of respective institutions and bodies, commanders of military units (formations) to provide for verifying documents that certify voters staying in the respective institutions or body or contain information on their residence (stay) within a territory where a military unit (formation) is deployed. The said officers or officials should provide these documents or true copies thereof no later than on the third day after being requested by an election commission, but no later than two days before Election Day.

 

10. If a special polling station is created as an exception in accordance with paragraph 7 of article 21 of this Law, a voter list shall be compiled by a polling station commission no later than 7 days before Election Day based on information submitted by a head of the respective institution, body, captain of a vessel, commander of a military unit (formation). The said information shall be submitted no later than 8 days before Election Day in one copy, bearing signature of a head of the respective institution, body, captain of a vessel, commander of a military unit (formation), sealed with a respective seal. After a voter list was compiled at such polling station, one copy of the list shall be immediately handed over to a respective district election commission. A commission of the polling station created on a vessel navigating under the State Flag of Ukraine or at a polar station of Ukraine may hand over the content of a voter list using technical means of communication.

 

11. An election commission of a special polling station when amending the voter list shall inform a district election commission of the territorial election district covering the polling station on putting respective individuals on a voter list and on their place of residence no later than on the next day after putting a voter on a voter list.

 

12. A district election commission shall inform district election commissions of respective territorial election districts on putting all individuals on a voter list of this specific polling station based on received copy of a voter list, as indicated in paragraph 10 of this article, or a notice indicated in paragraph 11 of this article.