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Article 88
 

The Preservation of Election and Other Documentation and Material Assets

1. After the official publication of results of the elections of the President of Ukraine, the Central Election Commission shall transfer election and other documentation to a relevant central state archival institution, and the territorial election commissions - to relevant local state archival institutions.

2. The Central Election Commission shall specify the list of the election and other documentation, which should be kept in state archival institutions and the procedure for its transfer to these institutions, under approval of a specially authorized central body of the executive power in charge of archive matters.

3. Local bodies of the executive power and bodies of local self-government shall after the termination of the powers of the polling station and territorial election commissions be obliged to ensure the safety of ballot boxes, voting booths, seals and stamps of these commissions, as well as methodological literature, which were provided to them during the period of the election process.

4. The protocols of the election commissions on the count of votes of voters in the election precinct, on the results of the vote in the territorial election districts, the election ballots, the control coupons of election ballots, the lists of voters, the acts, statements and complaints on violations of the requirements of this Law during the vote and the count of votes of voters, as well as other protocols and decisions of election commissions shall be kept in local state archival institutions for a duration of three years from the day of the official announcement of the results of the elections of the President of Ukraine and shall thereafter be destroyed according to the established procedure.

5. The state archival institutions shall ensure access to the election documentation from the elections of the President of Ukraine in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Ukraine.