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1. A precinct election commission shall be established by the respective district election
commission no later than eighteen days prior to the day of voting and shall consist of the chair, deputy
chair, secretary, and other members of the commission, consisting of no less than nine persons.
 At election precincts in which the number of voters does not exceed fifty persons, a precinct election
commission may consist of the chair, the secretary and two to four other members.
 2. The right to nominate precinct election commission members (no more than one nominee
from each candidate for each election commission) shall be granted to candidates for the President
of Ukraine. A submission of a list of persons that a candidate for President of Ukraine wishes to
nominate to the respective precinct election commission shall be filed with a district election
commission in both paper and electronically according to the form approved by the Central
Election Commission no later than twenty-three days prior to the day of voting and shall be signed
by an authorized person of a candidate for President of Ukraine in the nationwide or in the respective
territorial district.
 Submissions of candidates to the precinct election commissions may be filed by means of electronic
services in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission.
 3. A precinct election commission of a special election precinct established on a ship which on
the day of voting will be sailing under the National Flag of Ukraine, or at Ukraine’s polar station, shall
be established by the district election commission according to the place of registration of such a ship
or Ukraine’s polar station upon a submission, respectively, of the ship’s captain or the polar station’s
head, which can be sent via technical means of communication within the time period prescribed by
Part two of this Article
 4. The precinct election commission of an out-of-country election precinct shall be established by
the Central Election Commission on the basis of the submission filed by the entities specified in Part
two of Article 84 of this Code, if available, and a submission filed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Ukraine. The submission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine shall be filed no later than
twenty-one days before the voting day. Each nominating subject as specified by Part two of Article
84 of this Code, shall have the right to nominate one candidate to each precinct election
commission of an out-of-country election precinct. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine shall
submit a list of persons that it wishes to nominate to each precinct election commission of an out-

 

of-country election precinct, consisting of such a number of persons which shall be sufficient to
establish each election commission, pursuant to the requirement as regards the election
commission composition specified by Part one of this Article.
 5. In the event of establishing a special election precinct in an exceptional case pursuant to
Part five of Article 30 of this Code, a precinct election commission shall be established by the
Central Election Commission at the same time with establishing an election precinct on the basis
of a submission filed by the respective district election commission, or the Ministry of Defense of
Ukraine.
 6. Submissions shall include the following information:
 1) last name, first name and patronymic name;
 2) date of birth;
 3) citizenship;
 4) place and address of residence, as well as contact phone numbers;
 5) command the state language;
 6) educational background;
 7) place of employment and occupied position;
 8) election commission experience;
 9) information on whether the nominee has no criminal record for committing a grave or
 especially grave crime or a crime against citizens’ electoral rights or a corruption crime,
 which has not been lifted or expunged pursuant to the procedure established by law.
 The submission shall be accompanied by a photocopy of each of the nominees’ passport of a citizen
of Ukraine (photocopies of the first and second pages of the passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the form
of a passport book or photocopies of the front and reverse side of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine in
the form of a card); or photocopies of the first and second pages of a temporary certificate of a citizen
of Ukraine (for persons who were recently granted a citizenship of Ukraine).
 Statements of consent by persons nominated to the precinct election commission to participate in
the work of respective election commission on the behalf the respective nominating subject, consent to
perform the duties of the chair, deputy chair or secretary of the election commission, and not giving
consent to participate in the work of the election commission to other nominating subjects in the
respective election are submitted to the authorized person of the respective candidate for the post of
President of Ukraine the national or territorial district before the moment of submission to the Central
Election Commission of nominees for candidates to the precinct election commissions.
 If the district election commission finds a simultaneous nomination of one candidate to the precinct
election commission from different nominating subjects, the district election commission shall address
the respective nominating subjects, and the candidate nominated to the precinct election commission,
requesting to clarify information and submit a statement of consent to participate in the work of the
precinct election commission on behalf of the respective nominating subject. In case a person’s consent
to participate in the work of the precinct election commission from the respective nominating subject
is not confirmed, the district election commission shall reject the candidacy of such person.
 7. Technical errors or inaccuracies contained in a submission shall not constitute a reason for the
rejection of nominees.
 When such errors or inaccuracies are found with respect to last name, first name and patronymic
name of the person, date of his or her birth - the resolution on the formation of the district election
commission shall contain information on the basis of copies of passport documents.
 8. Nominees to a precinct election commission may be rejected only on the grounds of their
noncompliance with the requirements specified in Part six of this Article, and Article 34 of this
Code by way of decision by the district election commission.

 

 9. If the submission of nominees to a precinct election commission fails to be filed within the time
period prescribed by Part two of this Article, or if the number of persons nominated to the election
commission is less than nine, the district election commission shall appoint the nine members of the
precinct election commission, upon proposal submitted by the chair of this district election commission,
on the basis of proposals from the members of this district election commission, necessarily having
regard to all the nominees proposed by the candidates for the President of Ukraine. In such a case
nominees to a precinct election commission may be proposed to the chair of the district election
commission by other members of this district election commission.
 To ensure the proper preparation for and conduct of the election by precinct election commissions,
including on the day of voting, a district election commission may, if necessary, increase the number
of members of a precinct election commission to eighteen persons on the basis of a submission of the
chair of the respective district election commission according to proposals of members of this election
commission.
 10. Each subject whose nominees have been appointed to a precinct election commission (except
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) shall have the right to a proportional share of each category of
managerial positions in precinct election commissions. The share of managerial positions for each
nominating subject, whose nominees have been appointed to a precinct election commissions within a
territorial election district, shall be determined on the basis of the proportion of a number of nominees
included from this nominating subject in precinct election commissions, in relation to the total number
of members included in the precinct election commissions. A person appointed to a precinct election
commission upon submission of the chair of the district election commission (or upon the submission
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for an out-of-country election precinct) can be appointed
to a managerial position in the election commission only if no candidates for such a position have been
nominated by candidates for the President of Ukraine. Managerial positions shall be distributed
between the nominating subjects according to the shares determined under this Part of this Article
according to the procedure approved by the district election commission (or by the Central Election
Commission for an out-of-country election precinct), necessarily having regard to the approximate
uniformity of territorial distribution of positions received by representatives of each nominating subject.
 The provisions of this Part concerning the right to a proportional share of each category of
managerial positions shall apply only with regard to the initial formation of precinct election
commissions. In case of formation of a precinct election commission as a result of early termination of
the powers of its previous composition, the provisions of this Part shall not apply.
 In case of early termination of powers of the chair, deputy chair, secretary of the precinct election
commission and failure by the nominating subject from which the person was included in the precinct
election commission to submit other candidates for replacement no later than on the next day after the
day of receipt of the notice on the grounds for termination of their powers, but not later than on the last
day before the day of voting, another member of this commission shall be appointed to the respective
position of the chair, deputy chair, and secretary of the precinct election commission without respecting
the right of the nominating subject to a proportional share of each category of managerial positions.
 11. A decision on the establishment and composition of precinct election commissions, as well as
a decision on changes in the composition of a precinct election commission adopted in accordance with
the requirements of this Code, shall be made public no later than on the third day of the day on which
that decision was adopted in the manner prescribed by the respective election commission of the Central
Election Commission.