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Some provisions appear to be long, often reiterative and potentially confusing. For instance, the “State Voter Register” is defined as being “aimed at state registration”, and its main goal is the “individual registration of voters” (Articles 1 and 2.1.1, that seem a bit reiterative). Similarly, Article 1 provides for the “registration of citizens of Ukraine having the right to vote in accordance with the Article 70 of the Constitution… (hereinafter called the voters)”[3], whilst Article 2 distinguishes, as “main goals of the Register”, those of “individual registration of the voters” and “compiling voter lists for the elections of the President of Ukraine, people’s deputies of Ukraine… [and] in all-Ukrainian and local referendums”. The reader just may wonder if it would not be much easier to unify all these references, without specifying all kind of possible popular consultations (as the Law makes not only in Article 2.1.2, but also in very similar terms in Articles. 26.1, 26.2 and, in a certain way, in Article 29).