§ Electoral Code art. 197Presentation and verification of subscription lists

Presentation and verification of subscription lists
(1) No later than the last day of the deadline for collecting signatures, the initiative
group shall draw up minutes indicating the date of registration of the initiative group, the
number of signatures collected, the end date of the collection of signatures. The minutes,
signed by the members of the initiative group, and the subscription lists shall be submitted to
the Central Electoral Commission. The submission of additional subscription lists shall not be
allowed after the Commission has received and registered the subscription lists.
(2) Within 30 days of the submission of the subscription lists, the Central Electoral
Commission shall verify the authenticity of the signatures on the lists submitted, according to
the number laid down in Article 183. In order to verify the subscription lists, the electoral body
shall use the electronic application. The President of the Central Electoral Commission shall
approve the Guide on the operation of the application.
(3) The verification of the subscription lists may be assisted by the members of the
executive bureau of the initiative group as well as accredited observers upon request to the
Commission. The members of the executive bureau of the initiative group shall have the right
to be present only in the verification process of the subscription lists they have submitted. The
conditions for assisting in the process of verifying the subscription lists shall be laid down in
the guide referred to in paragraph (2).
(4) After verifying the subscription lists, the Central Electoral Commission shall take a
decision on the initiation of the republican referendum. The minutes on the verification of
subscription lists and the decision of the Central Electoral Commission to initiate the
referendum shall be sent within 3 days to Parliament’s Permanent Bureau.
(5) If the required number of signatures has not been submitted, the Central Electoral
Commission shall take a decision rejecting the proposal to conduct the republican referendum
and cancelling the registration of the initiative group.
(6) The subscription lists shall be invalidated if:
a) they are of a model or series (number) other than those issued by the Commission
to the collector;
b) they are not signed by the collector;
c) they do not contain the text of the question.
(7) The signature in the subscription list shall be invalidated if the supporter:
a) entered the personal data but did not sign it;
b) has no right to vote on the date of signing the subscription list;
c) entered his/her expired identity document;
d) is assigned to a second-level electoral constituency other than that in which the
signatures were collected;
e) entered incorrect identity data in the subscription list, preventing him/her from being
identified.
(8) The method of drawing up subscription lists, the procedure for collecting signatures
and the deadline for their submission and verification, as well as the responsibilities of the
persons collecting the signatures of supporters, shall be laid down in a regulation approved
by the Central Electoral Commission.