Making Changes to Information Posters and Information Brochures of Parties that are Electoral Subjects

1. If the Central Election Commission cancels the registration of an MP candidate, or in the case if an MP candidate withdraws from the election in the time period, during which the information posters and information brochures of the parties that are electoral subjects are produced, or after the production thereof, but in the time period, when the remaining time is insufficient to allow re-printing of information posters and information brochures of the parties that are electoral subjects, the Central Election Commission shall make a decision on making changes to an information poster and an information brochure of a party that is an electoral subject. The Central Election Commission shall immediately communicate such decision to the relevant district election commissions, so that the precinct election commissions can make respective amendments.

Such amendments to the information posters and information brochures of the parties that are electoral subjects shall be made by the precinct election commission members using the “Withdrawn” stamp at the meetings of the precinct election commissions of all territorial districts within the respective electoral region, to the regional electoral list of MP candidates in which the respective MP candidate was included.

In this case, the election commission member appointed by the commission shall affix the “Withdrawn” stamp to the respective MP candidate’s number and last name in each information poster of the respective party that is an electoral subject, as well as each information brochure of the party that is an electoral subject (such stamp shall be affixed in two places: in the nationwide electoral list and in the respective regional electoral list). The stamp shall be affixed in a horizontal position and shall not cover the other MP candidate’s number and the last name.

It shall be prohibited to make amendments to the information posters and information brochures of the parties that are electoral subjects without a decision of the Central Election Commission.

Each voter shall be informed of amendments made to the information posters and information brochures of the parties that are electoral subjects at the time when the ballot paper is being issued to him or her.

The form of the “Withdrawn” stamp shall be approved by the Central Election Commission no later than twenty-six days prior to the day of voting. District election commissions (regional or territorial representations of the Central Election Commission) shall provide for the production of such stamps no later than seven days prior to the day of voting or shall use the stamps produced earlier. The stamps “Withdrawn” shall be kept in custody of the district election commission (territorial representations of the Central Election Commission) during the election process.

A district election commission shall deliver the “Withdrawn” stamp to all precinct election commissions together with the respective decision of the Central Election Commission. The “Withdrawn” stamp shall be delivered to the precinct election commissions of out-of-country election precincts together with the information posters and information brochures of the parties that are electoral subjects.

2. If the information posters and information brochures of the parties that are electoral subjects are amended in the absence of a decision of the Central Election Commission, or if such amendments fail to comply with the decision of the Central Election Commission, the precinct election commission shall, at its meeting, withdraw and destroy such posters and/or brochures and write a report in two copies. The report shall state the number of the received information posters and/or the information brochures of a party that is an electoral subject, the number of withdrawn and destroyed information posters and/or information brochures, as well as the last names of the persons responsible for the spoiling. One copy of the report shall be immediately transferred to the district election commission, whereas the second copy shall be stored at the precinct election commission.

In this case, the district election commission shall provide the election precinct with the required number of the information posters and/or the information brochures of a party that is an electoral subject. If necessary, the district election commission may request the Central Election Commission to produce additional information posters and/or information brochures of a party that is an electoral subject.

3. It shall be prohibited to use, on the day of voting, the information posters and /or information brochures of a party that is an electoral subject, in which no amendments were made pursuant to the decision of the Central Election Commission, or in which amendments were made not in compliance with such a decision.