§ Art. I-44Amending Updated Voter Lists for a Regular Election Precinct

1. Amendments to an updated voter list shall be made by the chair or the deputy chair and the
secretary of the precinct election commission on the basis of a court decision or a notification from
the State Voter Register maintenance body with regard to multiple inclusion of a voter in the voter
list for a particular election precinct. Such changes shall be made before 18:00 hours of the last
Saturday prior to the day of voting.
 2. Should a voter be included in the voter list for an election precinct under the procedure for
making amendments to the updated voter list, the information on a voter, which is required by the
form of the voter list, shall be entered at the end of the voter list. In this case, the date and number
of the court decision shall be entered in the column “Notes”.
 3. The removal of a person who was wrongly included in the voter list shall be made by
striking out, and the removal shall be certified in the column “Notes” by the word “Excluded” and
the signatures of the chair and the secretary of the precinct election commission. In that case, the
date and number of the court decision or notification from the State Voter Register maintenance
body shall be entered in the same column next to the voter’s last name.
 4. When making changes to an updated voter lists based on a court decision, a precinct
election commission shall notify the respective State Voter Register maintenance body without
delay on the fact of inclusion of a voter in the voter list or exclusion of a voter from the voter list.

 

 5. If it is found that a voter is included in the updated voter lists more than once, in connection
with the receipt of a notification from a precinct election commission on the inclusion of the voter
in the voter list for another election precinct, then the State Voter Register maintenance body
receiving such notification shall notify without delay the respective precinct election commission,
which must exclude the voter from the voter list for that precinct.
 6. On the day prior to the day of voting, after changes have been made to the updated voter
list based on court decisions or notifications of the State Voter Register maintenance bodies, the
voter lists shall be closed by crossing out the blank columns of the voter lists for entering voter
names so as to prevent entering additional voters to the voter list, and signed by the chair or deputy
chair and the secretary of the precinct election commission and affixed with the precinct election
commission’s seal.
 7. On the day of voting no changes to the updated voter lists shall be made.
 8. On the day of voting, the chair, deputy chair, or secretary of the precinct election
commission shall correct all inaccuracies and technical errors in the updated voter list, namely,
misspelled last names, first names (all first names), patronymic names (if any), errors in the date
of birth, and number of the building and apartment of residence, provided that despite such
technical errors it is obvious that the person on the voter list is the same person who has come to
the election precinct for voting. Such correction shall be certified in the column “Notes” by the
signature of the chair or deputy chair or secretary of the precinct election commission.
 9. The information on voters included in or excluded from the updated voter lists, which is
required by the form of the updated voter list, as well as the information on voters, concerning
whom changes were made or inaccuracies and technical errors were corrected, shall be transferred
by the precinct election commission to the respective State Voter Register maintenance body.