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 In addition to addressing the above fundamental areas, adoption of the following recommendations would improve the draft law:

 



The text of the draft law is overly complex and could be further improved  to ensure that persons who are not electoral experts can understand how elections are to be conducted and how their representatives are elected to parliament; 



The complexity of the draft law reinforces the need for the codification of all election legislation in Ukraine in a single unified code;



The draft law should require that detailed results, including Precinct Election Commission (PEC) results, should be published on the Central Election Commission (CEC) website in order to enhance transparency;



In order to provide timely and relevant campaign finance information to the public, the draft law should require full disclosure, before and after elections, of sources and amounts of financial contributions and the types and amounts of campaign expenditures;



There is a danger that the use of video and cameras by observers from party and other observers may compromise the secrecy of the vote and create an atmosphere of intimidation, and this provision should be removed.



 

III.      Discussion of the Draft Law

 

A.           Nomination and Candidate Registration