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Article 77
 

The Procedure for Organizing Voting Beyond the Voting Premises

1. A voter, who due to his/her health conditions, is not able to come to the voting premises of the ordinary election precinct where he/she is included in the list of voters, as well as a voter included in the list of voters in a special election precinct formed in a stationary medical institution who because being confined to bed is unable to come to the voting premises, shall have the right to address the polling station election commission with a written application to provide him/her with the possibility to vote beyond the voting premises. Such application, indicating the place of stay of the voter, may be submitted no later than twelve hours prior to the beginning of the vote.

2. The polling station election commission shall register the application from a voter to vote beyond the voting premises in a separate register, where the day and time of its receipt, the surname, name and patronymic and the place of residence (place of stay) of the voter shall be indicated.

3. Based on the applications mentioned in part one of this article, the polling station election commission on the eve of the day of the elections after the expiry of the term for submission of such applications make an extract from the list of voters in accordance with the form established by the Cen­tral Election Commission. Simultaneously, the secretary of the polling station election commission shall enter the record "will vote at place of stay" in the column "signature of the voter".

4. Voting for voters beyond the voting premises shall be organized by at least three members of the polling station election commission delegated by the election commission. These members of the commission must be representatives of different candidates to the post of President of Ukraine.

5. Voting for voters beyond the voting premises shall be organized in such way that the voters can have accomplished the vote no later than one hour prior to the end of the vote.

6. The chairperson of the polling station election commission shall be obliged to announce that members of the polling station election commission are leaving to organize voting for voters beyond the voting premises. The members of the election commission shall be provided with election ballots in a quantity equal to the number of voters in the extract from the list of voters, the extract from the list of voters and a leaded or sealed mobile ballot box in which the control sheet shall be cast at this time. This sheet shall contain an indication of the time of departure (hour, minutes) of the election commission members to conduct the voting beyond the voting premises, the number of election ballots received and the surnames and initials of the members of the polling station election commission who were provided with election ballots. The control sheet shall be signed by the members of the election commission, by the candidates for the post of President of Ukraine, their proxies and official observers present, and their signatures shall be verified with the seal of the commission.

7. Official observers shall have the right to be present during the conduct of voting beyond the voting premises.

8. During the voting beyond the voting premises a member of the polling station election com­mission shall, based on the extract from the list of voters, issue one election ballot to the voter, on the condition that the voter provides one of the documents indicated in part two of article 2 of this Law, which certifies his/her identity and citizenship. The member of the polling station election commission shall write his/her surname, initials and signature in the designated place on the election ballot and on the control coupon. The voter shall sign the control coupon of the election ballot and the extract from the list of voters, and shall mark the election ballot in accordance with the procedure, envisaged by part six of article 75 of this Law, and cast it in the ballot box.

9. After voting beyond the voting premises has been completed, the member of the polling station election commission who issued the election ballot to the voter shall enter the record "have voted at place of stay" in the list of voters next to the surname of the voter, and shall indicate his/her surname and initials and put his/her signature.

10. The extract from the list of voters, according to which the voting of voters beyond the voting premises was organized, shall be attached to the list of voters and shall be an integrated constituent part of it. The written applications of the voters, based on which this voting was conducted, shall be attached to the list of voters.

11. The provisions of this article shall not be extended to election precincts abroad.