Ballot Paper
1. Voters shall vote on elections of deputies using ballot papers on elections of people deputies of Ukraine (further – ballot paper).
2. The form and text of a ballot paper shall be approved by the Central Election Commission no later than 32 days before Election Day. Ballot papers shall have equal dimensions, color, and content. Protection level for a ballot paper shall be established by the Central Election Commission.
3. The ballot paper shall contain name and date of elections of people deputies, the number of a territorial election district or an indication of a foreign election district, number of the polling station, and designated fields for a seal of a polling station commission, name, and initials of a polling station commission member who will issue the ballot paper. The text of the ballot paper shall be printed in the state language and shall consist of one page and its text should be placed on one side only.
4. The ballot paper shall indicate the full name of every party (bloc, with mandatory indication of names of parties constituting the bloc), the surnames, first names, patronymics of the first five candidates for deputy included in the electoral list of the party (bloc). An empty square should be placed to the left of every party’s (bloc’s) name. After the listing of parties (blocs), the following should be inscribed: “I do not support candidates for people’s deputies of Ukraine from any political party, election blocs of political parties”, and a blank box should be printed to the left of such text. Names of parties (blocs) shall be placed in a ballot paper in order of numbers assigned to them by lots drawn by the Central Election Commission with participation of representatives of parties (blocs) with the Central Election Commission after termination of registration of candidates from parties (blocs) prior to approval of a form and text of ballot paper.
5. A ballot paper shall contain explanations as to the procedure for completion of the ballot paper during voting.
6. A ballot paper shall have a control slip separated by a line for separation. The control slip shall contain the name and the date of the elections, number of a territorial election district or an indication of the foreign election district, the number of a polling station, and a designated place for the number under which the voter has been put in the voter list in this polling station, the signature of the voter, receiving the ballot paper, and for the surname and signature of the member of the polling station commission, who will issue the ballot paper.
7. A ballot paper shall be a document of rigorous accountability. The Central Election Commission, district, and polling station commissions shall ensure strict registration of received and issued ballot papers in accordance with requirements of this Law. Control documents for ballot papers shall be transferred to the Central Election Commission by the producing enterprise, district, and polling station commissions. The Central Election Commission shall ensure transferring the control documents to relevant archives after official announcement of the election results.
8. Ballot papers for each polling station shall be printed in the number exceeding the number of voters included into the voters’ list of the polling station by 2 percent.
9. Additional number of ballot papers, totaling one percent of the number of voters in the respective territorial election district, shall be printed out for polling stations, designated for absentee voting in accordance with paragraph 19 of Article 42 of this Law.
