Procedure for Familiarizing Voters with the Preliminary Voter Lists in Regular Election Precincts and for Correction of Inaccuracies in Voter Lists

1. On the day following the day of the receipt of the preliminary voter list, a precinct election commission of a regular election precinct shall make it available for public review at the premises of the precinct election commission.

2. A precinct election commission of a regular election precinct shall send or deliver in another manner to each voter a personal invitation, received from the State Voter Register maintenance body.

Such personal invitations shall be sent or delivered no later than nine days prior to the day of voting.

3. A voter shall have the right to access the preliminary voter list at the premises of the precinct election commission and to verify the correctness of the information it includes.

A voter may submit an application to the precinct election commission or directly to the State Voter Register maintenance body, seeking to correct the preliminary voter list, in particular concerning the inclusion or exclusion of the voter or any other persons in/from the voter list, as well as concerning the presence or absence of a note indicating that the voter is permanently unable to move independently.

4. A voter shall personally submit an application concerning circumstances specified in Part three of this Article to the precinct election commission or directly to the State Voter Register maintenance body. Should a voter not be able to submit an application personally due to health reasons (due to disability, temporary health disorder, age), the precinct election commission shall, upon application of such voter, provide for the acceptance of application from such voter in another manner. Such an application may also be submitted to the body maintaining the State Register of Voters by means of electronic services in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission.

The application shall be supplemented with documents (copies of documents) certifying the information presented therein.

5. An application specified Part three of this Article may be filed no later than five days prior to the day of voting and shall be considered by the election commission within one day of receipt. An application submitted after the expiration of the aforementioned term shall not be reviewed.

6. Based on the results of reviewing an application, the precinct election commission shall adopt a decision to deliver that application to the State Voter Register maintenance body. The decision of the election commission shall be immediately sent to the relevant State Voter Register maintenance body along with the voter’s application and documents (copies of documents) appended thereto and shall also be issued to the applicant as well as sent to a person concerned (if it concerns a person other than the applicant) no later than on the day following the day of its adoption.

7. The State Voter Register maintenance body shall ensure consideration of voters’ applications in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Law of Ukraine “On State Voter Register”. The applicant as well as a person concerned (if the voter’s application concerns another person) shall be informed of the result of review of the respective application.

8. An administrative lawsuit seeking to correct a voter list may be filed with a court in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Code of Administrative Adjudication of Ukraine.

9. A court judgment requiring amendments to be made to the preliminary voter list shall be presented by the voter no later than five days before the day of voting to the relevant State Voter Register maintenance body or to the respective precinct election commission for immediate delivery to such body; and upon expiry of that term, to the precinct election commission.