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Article 54
 

Signature Sheet

1. The Central Election Commission shall take a decision to approve the form of the signature list for each candidate within three days from the day of the registration of the candidate. No later than the day following the day the decision was adopted, a copy of this decision, together with the approved signature list for each candidate, shall be issued to the authorized representative of the party (bloc).

2. The Central Election Commission shall issue the signature lists to the authorized representatives of the party (bloc) or directly to the candidate to the post of President of Ukraine in the amount necessary to collect the quantity of signatures specified in part one of article 53 of this Law, including a ten percent reserve. The signature lists shall be issued within five days from the day the Central Election Commission approved the form of the signature list for the respective candidate.

3. Strictly adhering to the established form of the signature list, the party (bloc), which nominated a candidate, or the self-nominated candidate may produce any amount of signature lists by means of printing, photocopying or otherwise.

4. The signature list in support of a candidate to the post of President of Ukraine from a party (bloc) must contain the following data:

1) the candidate's surname, name and patronymic, year of birth, employer (position), and party affiliation;

2) the full name of the political party or election bloc which nominated the candidate, and the full names of the parties that are members of the bloc, or an indication that the candidate is a self-nominated candidate;

3) information on the person who is collecting the signatures of voters (surname, name and patronymic, day, month and year of birth, citizenship, place of residence, and - if available - telephone number);

4) the full name of the populated area , where the signatures are being collected, as well as the full name of the village, settlement, city, district, oblast, or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, to which the populated area is subordinated.

5. The signature list shall contain the following columns:

1) the successive number of the voter in the signature list;

2) the surname, name and patronymic of the voter;

3) the year of birth of the voter (for voters , who become eighteen in the year of elections, the day, month, and year of birth);

4) the citizenship of the voter;

5) the place of residence of the voter;

6) the title, number, and series of a document that certifies the voter's identity and citizenship from among those specified in part two of article 2 of this Law;

7) the date the voter signed;

8) the personal signature of the voter.