§ KZ Election Law Art. 24Register of voters (electors) and the order of their compilation

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1. Lists of voters shall be compiled during the elections of the President, deputies of the Mazhilis of the Parliament and maslikhats, akim, and members of other local governments. Lists of electors shall be drawn up during the elections of deputies of the Senate.
2. (excluded by the Constitutional Law of RK dated April 14, 2004 № 545-II).
3. The grounds for enrolment of a citizen in the voter register shall be the fact of his/her registration in the place of residence in the territory of the given electoral district.
4. Voter lists shall be compiled in alphabetical or other order. The list shall include the last name, first name, patronymic name, year of birth (at the age of eighteen - day and month additionally), individual identification number and address of the voter's residence. The lists of electors shall be compiled in alphabetical or other order and include the last name, first name, patronymic, year of birth, individual identification number, name of the maslikhat whose deputy he is, and his address of residence.
5. The voter list at the place of residence shall be compiled by the relevant local executive body on the basis of the state database of individuals.
Each voter shall have the right to register as a voter in the relevant local executive body from the moment of announcement or appointment of elections.
If it became known to the voter no later than thirty days before the election that he would not be able to arrive at the polling station on the election day at the place of his registration, he shall have the right to apply to the local executive body in writing at his place of residence for inclusion in the relevant voter list.
When citizen appeals in accordance with this paragraph, the local executive body shall organize the exclusion of a citizen from the voter list at the place of registration and his inclusion in the voter list of the polling station where the citizen will vote.
Voter lists for each polling station shall be signed by the akim, whose decision establishes the polling station, and shall be submitted by the act twenty days before the voting begins.
By July 1 and January 1 of each year, information about voters and the boundaries of polling stations shall be submitted by the local executive body in electronic form to the appropriate territorial election commissions, which ensure the verification and submission of information to the higher election commissions.
The procedure for verification and submission of information shall be determined by the Central Election Commission.
Officials of local executive bodies shall be responsible for the accuracy of voter lists, as well as information about voters submitted by the relevant election commission.
6. Students in secondary special and higher educational institutions, as well as those under professional postgraduate educational programs of full-time education, living in dormitories, shall be included in the voter list at the dormitory's location.
7. The register of voters, who are military servicemen in the military units as well as members of their families and other voters living in the locations of military units, shall be compiled on the basis of the data submitted by commanders of the military units.
8. The voter register by electoral districts to be formed in the rest houses, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions, in the places of the citizens’ stay in the remote and hard-to-reach areas, in the distant pastures, in the investigative wards and detention centers as well as in the representative offices and agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan in foreign states, on board of ships belonging to the Republic of Kazakhstan that on the day of elections are in navigation shall be compiled on the basis of the data submitted by the chiefs of the named establishments, corresponding akims, chiefs of the named representative offices and agencies and captains of ships.
The voter registers by electoral districts to be formed in the places for temporary stay (rest homes, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions, in the outruns, in investigative wards and detention centers, including the representative offices of the Republic of Kazakhstan а abroad, on board the ships belonging to the Republic that are in navigation on the Election Day) shall be subject to mandatory adjustment on the day preceding the Election Day.
9. Lists of electors for the election of deputies of the Senate of the Parliament shall be compiled by the respective territorial election commissions on the proposal of the chairman of the respective regional, city (city of republican significance and the capital of the Republic) maslikhat.
10. Making changes in the voter register since the beginning of vote count shall be prohibited.
Footnote. Article 24 is with the changes introduced by the Constitutional Laws of RK dated April 14, 2004 № 545-II; April 15, 2005 № 44-III; dated 29.06.2018 № 162-VI (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after its first official publication); dated 24.05.2021 № 41-VII (shall be enforced upon the expiration of ten calendar days after the day of its first official publication); dated 05.11.2022 № 156-VII (shall come into effect from 01.01.2023).

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