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Article 72
 

The Procedure for the Production of Election Ballots

1. The Central Election Commission shall ensure that state printing houses no later than ten days prior to the day of elections centrally produces the election ballots for voting on the day of elections based on an agreement, which it shall conclude with these printing houses. Election ballots for repeat voting must be produced according to the same procedure no later than six days prior to the day of the repeat vote.

2. Technical waste and misprints, as well as the printing plates must be destroyed in accordance with the procedure and the terms specified in the contract for producing the election ballots.

3. The Central Election Commission shall receive the election ballots in the package of the producer.

4. The election ballots for voting on the day of elections or on the day of repeat voting shall be printed on identical paper according to the form and with the text approved by the Central Election Commission, and they must be equal in size, colour and content.

5. The election ballot shall be printed in the state language on one sheet of paper with text on one side only.

6. In a special election precinct created on board a vessel, which are at sea under the State Flag of Ukraine on the day of elections, or at polar stations of Ukraine, election ballots may, as an exemption, with the permission of the Central Election Commission, be produced directly by the polling station election commission.

7. In case a decision to register a candidate to the post of President of Ukraine is cancelled, the Cen­tral Election Commission shall take a decision on entering changes into the election ballot. Members of the polling station election commission shall enter such changes into election ballots using the relevant stamp. Every voter shall be informed about the changes made to election bal­lots when the election ballots are being issued.

8. An election ballot, in which the changes envisaged by part seven of this article have not been entered, shall be considered invalid. An election ballot, in which changes have been entered without a decision of the Central Election Commission or not in compliance with such decision, shall be considered invalid.