Storage of Election and Other Documents and Material Assets

1. After the official announcement (official promulgation) of the results of elections, the Central Election Commission, district election commissions, territorial election commissions in local elections shall deliver to the respective central or local archival institutions the election documents and other documents.

2. The list of election documents and other documents to be stored in the state and local archival institutions, as well as the procedure for the delivery thereof to those institutions shall be determined by the Central Election Commission, subject to coordination with the central executive body implementing the state policy in the field of archival activities.

3. Electoral documentation that is not to be included in the National Archival Fund shall be submitted by election commissions to local archival institutions established by the bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, local executive bodies or local self-government bodies in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On the National Archival Fund and Archival Institutions".

4. Protocols of the election commissions on the vote counting in the election precincts, on the voting results in the territorial election districts, ballot papers, voter list counterfoils, voter lists, reports, applications, complaints against violations of the requirements of this Code during the conduct of the voting or the counting of votes, as well as the protocols and decisions of the election commissions, shall be stored at the local archival institutions for five years from the day of the official promulgation of the results of the respective election, whereupon they shall be destroyed in accordance with the established procedure.

5. The state and local archival institutions shall provide access to the election documents in accordance with the procedure specified by the legislation.

6. Local executive bodies, bodies of Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and local self-government bodies, after the termination of the powers of the election commissions formed on a temporary basis, are obliged to ensure the preservation of ballot boxes, voting booths, seals, stamps of these commissions, methodological literature provided to them for the period of the election process, other tangibles necessary for the election process.

7. In case regional and/or territorial representations of the Central Election Commission are formed, tangibles specified in Part six of this Article may be transferred to them for storage in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission. Local executive bodies, bodies of Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and local self-government bodies are obliged to provide the respective representations of the Central Election Commission with the necessary premises for storage of material values, as well as to allocate premises to local archival institutions for temporary storage of election documents.