Procedure for Transportation and Delivery of Election Documents to District Election Commission

1. The election documents specified in Part ten of Article 121 of this Code shall be transported by the head or the deputy head of the precinct election commission and two other members of this election commission, who shall be accompanied by a representative of the police, or by representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine, if necessary, upon request of the Central Election Commission. Other members of the precinct election commission, candidates, their authorized persons, and official observers may, if they choose, accompany the transportation of the election documents. Other persons shall be prohibited from accompanying the transportation of the election documents. Unpacking the packages with the ballot papers and other election documents during transportation shall be prohibited.

If simultaneously with the election of the President of Ukraine local elections are held, the election documents related to such elections shall be transported to the respective election commission by members of the precinct election commission who will not participate in transporting the election documents related to the election of the President of Ukraine to the district election commission.

The secretary of the precinct election commission, as well as other members of the commission not accompanying the election documents during their transportation to the district election commission, shall stay in the premises of the precinct election commission until they are notified of the acceptance by the district election commission of the protocols of the precinct election commission on vote counting at the election precinct. During the transportation of the election documents, the precinct election commission’s seal and blank protocols of the precinct election commissions on vote counting at the election precinct, unless they were used for drawing up the protocols with the mark “Corrected” prior to the dispatch of those protocols together with the election documents to the district election commission, shall be kept in the safe (metal case) in the premises of the precinct election commission.

2. The protocol on vote counting at the election precinct and other documents of the precinct election commission shall be handed over to the respective district election commission at its meeting.

3. The contents of the protocol on vote counting at a special election precinct established on a ship sailing, as of the day of voting, under the National Flag of Ukraine, or at Ukraine’s polar station, upon its signing by the precinct election commission members, shall be immediately sent by the precinct election commission via technical means of communication to the relevant district election commission, followed by mandatory delivery of the first and second copies of the protocol on vote counting at the election precinct, together with other documents specified in Part ten of Article 121 of this Code.

4. The contents of the protocol on vote counting at an out-of-country election precinct, upon its signing by the precinct election commission members, shall be immediately sent by the precinct election commission via technical means of communication to the Central Election Commission, followed by mandatory delivery of the first and second copies of the protocol on vote counting at the election precinct, through respective central executive bodies, in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission. The protocol shall be appended with other documents specified in Part ten of Article 121 of this Code.