§ Art. I-34Requirements to Members of Election Commissions

1. Citizens of Ukraine that have the right to vote in accordance with Article 70 of the
Constitution of Ukraine may be members of an election commission.
 2. Should the election process of elections or the referendum process be conducted
simultaneously, a voter may be a member of only one election commission or referendum
commission in the all-Ukrainian or local referendum.
 3. The following persons may not be election commission members: candidates in the
respective elections (all elections, the election processes of which are conducted simultaneously);
their agents, their representatives in election commissions; authorized persons (representatives) of
the parties (party organizations), official observers, officials of state executive bodies, state bodies
of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and local self-government bodies, judges and employees
of courts and law enforcement bodies as well as citizens detained in penitentiary institutions or
pretrial detention centers or those having criminal records for committing a grave or especially
grave crime or a crime against citizens’ electoral rights or a corruption crime, unless this criminal
record has been lifted or expunged pursuant to the procedure established by the Law.
 4. Employees of inpatient care establishments or a penitentiary institution or a pretrial
detention center may not be members of a precinct election commission established in the
respective establishment or an institution.
 5. An election commission which forms the respective election commission or forms its
composition shall, simultaneously with the formation of this election commission or its
composition, appoint the chair, deputy chair, and secretary of such election commission.
 6. The secretary of an election commission must have command the state language.