§ Article 19(untitled)

ormation of Election Precincts, Referendum Precincts

 1. Election precincts, referendum precincts shall be formed to conduct voting and votes
counting.

 2. Election precincts, referendum precincts shall be formed by the head of a municipal
formation in coordination with commissions by the head of local administration of municipal
formation, urban district, city territory of the federal city, and in cases stipulated by the law of the
subject of the Russian Federation – federal city – by the head of territorial body of executive
power of the federal city, and at election to body of local self-government of an urban
settlement, excluding urban district, or rural settlement (hereinafter urban settlement except
urban district and rural settlement are referred to as settlement) – by the head of local
administration of settlement or persons indicated in Clauses 3 and 6 of this Article,
corresponding commission in the order stipulated by Clause 5 of this Article on the basis of the
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data on the number of voters, referendum participants registered in the territory of the election
precinct, referendum precinct in accordance with Clause 10, Article 16 of this Federal Law, with
not more than 3 thousand voters, referendum participants per precinct. Election precincts,
referendum precincts shall be formed not later than in 45 days prior to the voting day.
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)

 3. For citizens of the Russian Federation staying outside the territory of the Russian
Federation, election precincts, referendum precincts shall be formed by the heads of diplomatic
or consular missions of the Russian Federation in the territory of the country where they stay.
The provisions regarding the number of voters, referendum participants set forth in Clause 2 of
this Article shall not be applied if election precincts, referendum precincts are formed outside
the territory of the Russian Federation.

 4. The boundaries of election precincts shall not cross the boundaries of electoral
districts. The procedures for assigning election precincts formed outside the territory of the
Russian Federation to electoral districts formed for elections of federal bodies of state power
shall be set by a federal law.

 5. In places where voters, referendum participants temporarily stay (hospitals,
sanatoriums, holiday hotels, detention centers for suspected or accused persons, and other
places of temporary stay of voters), in remote areas and hard-to-reach areas, on ships at sea
on the voting day and at polar stations, election precincts, referendum precincts may be formed
within the periods established by Clause 2 of this Article, and in exceptional cases and upon
approval of the superior commission, not later than in 3 days before the voting day. Such
election precincts shall be included in electoral districts where the election precincts are located
or where the ships are registered. At elections to bodies of state power of the subject of the
Russian Federation, to bodies of local self-government, at a referendum of the subject of the
Russian Federation, a local referendum, the law of the subject of the Russian Federation may
prescribe a different procedure for assignment of precincts to electoral districts, referendum
districts. In remote and hard-to-reach places, at ships that are at sea on the voting, at polar
stations election precincts, referendum precincts may be formed by superior commission in
coordination with the captain of the ship, the head of the polar station, heads of organizations
located in hard-to-reach or remote areas.
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ, of October 4, 2010, No.263-FZ)

 6. Military men shall vote at regular election precincts, referendum precincts. In military
units, election precincts, referendum precincts may be formed by military unit officers in cases,
and in the order and terms established by law.

 7. Lists of election precincts, referendum precincts indicating their boundaries and
numbers, location of precinct commissions, and polling stations shall be published by the head
of local administration of municipal district, urban district, city territory of the federal city, and in
cases stipulated by the law of the subject of the Russian Federation – federal city – by the head
of territorial body of executive power of the federal city, and at election to body of local self-
government of settlement – by the head of local administration of settlement not later than in 40
days prior to the voting day. The procedure for providing the said information to voters,
referendum participants in the circumstances described in Clauses 3 and 5 of this Article shall
be established by law.
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)
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 Chapter IV. ELECTION COMMISSIONS, REFERENDUM COMMISSIONS