Tabulation of Voting Results in the Out-of-Country Election District

1. The Central Election Commission shall, at its meeting, consider and announce protocols of the precinct election commissions on the vote counting at the out-of-country election precincts, which were received by the Commission, or notifications about the contents of the respective protocols of vote counting, transmitted by technical means of communication in accordance with the Part four of Article 123 of this Code.

2. The Central Election Commission shall, after the receipt and consideration of the protocols of the precinct election commissions on the vote counting at the out-of-country election precincts, at the same meeting establish the information provided for by Part one of Article 125 of this Code, based on the aforementioned protocols and the notifications about the contents thereof, which have been transmitted using the technical means of communication.

3. The information on the voting results within the out-of-country election district shall be announced at the meeting of the Central Election Commission and entered in numbers in the protocols of the Central Election Commission on the voting results within the out-of-country election district.

4. The protocol specified in Part three of this Article shall be drawn up in accordance with the procedure specified by Article 125 of this Code.

5. The protocol specified in Part three of this Article shall be drawn up in two copies. The protocol shall be signed by the Head, Deputy Heads, Secretary and other members of the Central Election Commission present at the meeting of the commission and affixed by the seal of the Central Election Commission. The protocol shall specify the date and time (hours and minutes) of its signing by the members of the Central Election Commission. If a member of the commission disagrees with the vote counting results entered in a protocol of the Central Election Commission, that member of Central Election Commission shall sign the protocol with a note “With dissenting opinion”. A written dissenting opinion shall be attached to the protocol on vote counting. Failure or refusal of some members of the election commission to sign a vote counting protocol shall entail no legal consequences for the validity of the protocol. In the case of absence of the signature of the member of the Central Election Commission in a protocol, the reasons for the absence of the signature shall be indicated next to his or her last name. Candidates for the President of Ukraine, their authorized representatives in the Central Election Commission that were present during the establishing the voting results within the out-of-country election district shall be entitled to sign the first copy of the protocol. The contents of the protocol shall be immediately made public using the official website of the Central Election Commission.

6. Upon his or her request, a candidate, his or her authorized representative in the Central Election Commission shall immediately receive a copy of the protocol (including the one marked “Corrected”) of the Central Election Commission on the voting results within the out-of-country election district, one copy of each protocol for each candidate. The said copies shall be certified on each page by signatures of the Head and the Secretary of the Central Election Commission and affixed with the seal of the Central Election Commission.

7. The Central Election Commission shall be obliged to establish the results of voting within the out-of-country election district regardless of the number of out-of-country election precincts at which the voting was declared invalid or such that was not organized and conducted in accordance with the requirements of Article 118 of this Code.

8. The voting in the out-of-country election district may not be declared invalid.