Powers of a Precinct Election Commission with Regard to preparation and Conduct of the Election of the President of Ukraine

1. A precinct election commission shall:

1) exercise control of compliance with and the uniform application of the legislation on the election of the President of Ukraine;

2) obtain the voter lists from the State Voter Register maintenance body, or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; compile the voter lists in the cases provided for by this Code; provide it for public review and make changes to it in the cases provided for by this Code;

3) create conditions so that a voter can familiarize himself or herself with the information on all candidates for the President of Ukraine, their election programs, as well as decisions of the Central Election Commission, the respective district election commission, and its own decisions and notifications;

4) hand over or send in advance to voters personal invitations that have been received from the State Voter Register maintenance bodies, with indication of the date of the election, the address of the voting premises, the time of the beginning and the end of the voting;

5) provide for preparation of the voting premises and ballot boxes for voting;

6) make changes, pursuant to the decision of the Central Election Commission in the cases provided for by this Code, to the ballot paper;

7) organize the voting at an election precinct;

8) conduct the vote counting of votes cast at an election precinct; compile the protocol on the counting of votes at the election precinct and send it to the respective district election commission;

9) invalidate the results of voting at an election precinct in cases provided for by this Code;

10) consider addresses, applications and complaints on issues of making changes to the voter lists, organization and conduct of the voting and vote counting at an election precinct and, within the scope of their powers, make decisions on them;

11) summarize the information on addresses submitted to the precinct election commission concerning the election process of the President of Ukraine, as well as the results of their consideration, post this information on the stand of the commission’s official materials for public review, and submit it to the district election commission which summarizes it and transmits to the Central Election Commission for publication on its official website.

12) exercise other powers provided for by this Code and other Laws of Ukraine.

2. A precinct election commission shall begin to exercise its powers as soon as the majority of its composition determined during the establishing of this precinct election commission are sworn-in at its first meeting which shall be held no later than on the second day following the day on which the decision establishing the district election commission was adopted and shall be convened by its head.

3. The powers of a precinct election commission shall be terminated in five days following the day of official promulgation by the Central Election Commission of the results of the election of the President of Ukraine.

4. A precinct election commission shall terminate its activities at the same time with the expiry of its powers.