§ KZ Election Law Art. 38Time and place of voting

1. Voting for the election of the President, deputies of the Mazhilis of the Parliament and maslikhats, akim, and members of other local self-government bodies shall be held on the election day from 7:00 am to 20:00 local time. Territorial election commissions, on the proposal of the relevant akim, precinct election commissions, shall have the right to establish a different time for the start and end of voting. Wherein, voting may not begin earlier than six o'clock and end later than twenty-two. The decision of the territorial commissions to change the start and end time of voting must be communicated to the voters.
2. Precinct election commission shall notify voters via mass media and in other ways about the time and place of voting not later than ten days before the day of election; and not later than five days before the day of election of members of local self-government bodies other than Maslikhats.
3. At the polling stations to be formed on board the ships belonging to the Republic of Kazakhstan that on the day of elections are in navigation, in the military units, 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 of the Republic of Kazakhstan in foreign states, the precinct election commission shall announce the voting as finished at any time if all voters enrolled in the registers have voted. The list of such electoral districts shall be approved by the corresponding election commission not later than seven days before elections while at conduct of elections of members of local self-government bodies other than Maslikhats - not later than three days before elections.
4. Voting during elections of the Senate deputies shall be conducted within one day. In this case the time of voting shall be fixed by the territorial election commission.
Footnote. Article 38 is with the changes introduced by the Constitutional Laws of the RK dated April 14, 2004 № 545-II; June 19, 2007 № 268-III; February 9, 2009 № 124-IV (the order of enactment see Art. 2); 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).