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Article 22
 

Familiarization with Electoral Registers

1. Lists of voters at precinct stations shall be presented for general familiarizing and additional updating not later than 25 calendar days prior to the election day while those composed for electoral precincts in hospitals, sanatoriums, rest homes, and other places of temporary residence, inhabited places of remote and difficult of access areas, investigations isolation wards and temporary detention centers, in military units and also at diplomatic missions of the Kyrgyz Republic in foreign countries, not later than 5 calendar days prior to the election day. Citizens shall be provided a possibility to get familiarized with the electoral register and to review the correctness of the information on voters in the premises of the corresponding election commissions.

2. Each citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic exercising an active election right shall be entitled to inform the precinct, territorial district election commission on non-inclusion of his/her name in the electoral register, any error or inaccuracy in the list of voters. Within 24 hours, and on the election day within 2 hours from the moment of application and not later than 2 hours before the termination of voting, the precinct/district election commission shall review the application as well as submitted documents and either eliminate the error or inaccuracy, or give the applicant a reply in writing with an explanation of the grounds for dismissal of the application. The precinct/district election commission decision may be appealed against in the superior election commission or in the court (according to the location of the precinct/territorial district election commission) that shall be obliged to review the complaint within 3 days and on the election day it shall be done immediately.

3. A citizen’s exclusion from the electoral register shall be made only on the basis of the information received from respective bodies that carry out state registration (accounting) of voters, or on the basis of the information received from the voter himself/herself that reflects through his/her passport his/her legal incapability to vote at this polling station. The date and the reason for such exclusion of the citizen from the electoral register shall be recorded in it at the time of the strike out. This record shall be authenticated by the signature of the Chairperson of the precinct/territorial district election commission, and an appeal against it may be filed with the superior election commission or a court (according to the location of the precinct/ district election commission) that shall consider the claim within a three-day period, but immediately on the election day.

Executive bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic should provide any required assistance to precinct election commissions when solving the issue of entering or exclusion of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic in the electoral registers, or of errors and inaccuracies in the electoral registers.

The citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic who possesses an active suffrage shall be included into an additional voting list by the respective election commission on the basis of his/her motivated appeal on non-inclusion in to the main voters’ lists provided he/she presents a passport that has a residence registration stamp proving that the voter resides on the territory of that particular polling station, as well as on the basis of a strike-off certificate. Voter’s data entered into an additional voting list shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the polling station and stamped by the precinct election commission, as well as by no less than two persons with deliberative vote. In case of absence of persons with deliberative vote, the additional voting list can be signed by a scrutineer or by an observer.

4. It shall be prohibited to make any changes in the electoral registers after the completion of voting and the beginning of counting of votes.

(In the edition of the Law issued on January 24th 2004 year No. 7, December 23th 2004 year, No. 194)