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Article 37
 

Premises for Voting

1. The premises for voting shall be placed at the disposal of the precinct election commission free of charge by government executive bodies.

2. The premises for voting shall have polling booths or other specially equipped places for secret voting provided with a system of lighting and writing materials, with the exception of pencils.

The system of lighting must have an alternative source of power supply. If the light goes off, the voting shall stop until it is resumed. (at the expense of the main or alternative source of power supply) in this case, observers, candidates’ representatives shall have the right to stand at the ballot boxes and voting booths at a distance which ensures implementation of their duties in order to ensure efficient observation over the work of the precinct election commission.

3. In the premises for voting, the election commission shall put up a poster with information on all candidates, Information materials should not contain campaigning slogans. On the stand there shall be also posted samples of filled ballots that should not contain names of the candidates registered at that constituency.

4. The premises for voting should be equipped in such a way as to allow keeping the places for handing out the ballots, polling booths and ballot-boxes simultaneously within the field of vision of the members of the election commission, and observers.

(In the edition of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic issued on January 24th 2004 year No. 7)