Publicity and Transparency of the Election Process

1. The elections provided for by this Code shall be conducted in a public and transparent manner.

2. The election commissions that prepare for and conduct the respective election shall ensure the public nature and transparency of the election process by:

1) informing citizens of the composition, location and working schedule of election commissions; the establishment of the election districts and election precincts; and the main rights of voters, including the right to challenge illegal decisions, actions or inaction of election commissions and their members, and state executive bodies, bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, local self-government bodies, enterprises, establishments, institutions and organizations, and their heads and other officials who violate or restrict electoral rights;

2) ensuring that voters, other electoral subjects of the respective electoral process have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the voter lists, election programs of parties (local party organizations), candidates, electoral lists of parties (party organizations), information on candidates;

3) providing voters with explanation of voting procedures, including the procedure of filling out ballot papers;

4) making public the results of the voting and the results of the respective election;

5) providing other information in the cases and in accordance with the procedure stipulated by this Code.

3. Decisions of state executive bodies, bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and local self-government bodies relating to elections shall be made public by the aforementioned bodies in accordance with the procedure established by the Law.

4. All decisions of the Central Commission shall be immediately published on its official website with the ability to view, copy and print the information, as well as in the form of a data set organized in a way to allow its automated processing by electronic means (machine reading) for the purpose of reuse.

District election commissions in national elections shall submit all their decisions to the Central Election Commission in electronic form no later than on the day following the day of their adoption. These decisions of district election commissions shall be published on the official website of the Central Election Commission after their receipt with the possibility to view and print the information.

Territorial election commissions publish their decisions on their official websites (if available), the websites of the respective local councils (if available) or in another manner specified by this Code.

District and territorial election commissions shall submit all their decisions for publication on the official websites of the respective regional or territorial offices of the Central Election Commission no later than on the day following the day of their adoption. These decisions of district and territorial election commissions shall be published on the official websites of the respective regional or territorial offices of the Central Election Commission.

5. When holding national elections, foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine, at which out-of-country election precincts are established, shall ensure the publication on their official websites or in another manner of the information about the time and place of voting, about the location of respective election commissions and voting premises, as well as the procedure and deadlines for applying to precinct election commissions, in particular, with regard to a voter’s inclusion in the voter list for an out-of-country election precinct, the voting procedure and the procedure for filling out the ballot paper.

6. The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption shall ensure the publication of financial reports on the receipt and use of election funds submitted by the managers of the respective election funds in the public part of the Unified State Register of Political Parties Reporting on Property, Income, Expenditures and Liabilities of a Financial Nature.
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption monitors the timely submission of reports on the receipt and use of resources of electoral funds in national and local elections, the completeness and accuracy of the information provided in the reports.

7. The day before the day of voting, bodies of the National Police of Ukraine shall publish on their official websites the preliminary information on the number of registered complaints about violations of the electoral legislation during the respective election process and clarification of responsibility for violations of the electoral legislation. Within ten days after the day of voting, the National Police of Ukraine shall publish on the official website the summary information on the number of initiated criminal proceedings and the number of complaints registered by the bodies of the National Police of Ukraine related to violations of electoral legislation during the respective election process.