§ Art. III-177Declaration by a Precinct Election Commission of the Invalidity of Voting at the

Election Precinct
 1. A precinct election commission shall be entitled to declare the voting in an election precinct invalid
if it establishes that there have been violations of the requirements of this Code that make it impossible to
determine the true results of expression of the voters’ will, only under the following circumstances:
 1) discovery of cases of illegal voting (casting of a ballot paper into the ballot box by other
 persons instead of the voter (except in the cases specified by Part nine of Article 173 of this
 Code), voting by persons who have no right to vote; voting by persons who are not included
 in the voter list for the election precinct or who have been included in the voter list without
 legal grounds; multiple voting by the same person) in a number that exceeds by five percent
 the number of voters who received ballot papers at the election precinct;
 2) destruction of or damage to a ballot box (ballot boxes) that makes it impossible to establish
 the content of the ballot papers, if the number of such ballot papers exceeds by five percent
 the number of voters who received ballot papers at the election precinct;
 3) discovery in the ballot boxes of ballot papers in a number that exceeds by more than ten
 percent the number of voters who received ballot papers at the election precinct.
 2. If the circumstances provided for by Part one of this Article are discovered, the precinct election
commission shall in each case write an act thereon. Such act shall be the ground for consideration by
the precinct election commission of whether to declare the voting at the election precinct in the
respective territorial district invalid.
 3. Should a decision be made on declaring the voting at the election precinct invalid, all ballot
papers found in the ballot boxes at the election precinct, shall not be subject to counting. In this
case, the protocol of the precinct election commission on vote counting at the election precinct shall
contain only the data specified in clauses one through five of Part two of Article 176 of this Code.
In other places a dash shall be inserted. The protocol of the precinct election commission on vote
counting shall be completed by the precinct election commission in accordance with the procedure
prescribed by Article 176 of this Code.
 4. If a precinct election commission takes a decision declaring voting at the election precinct to
be invalid, the ballot papers shall be packed. The inscription “The ballot papers” shall be made on the

 

package, with indication of the number of the territorial district, the number of the election precinct, the
number of the packed ballot papers, the date and time of packaging; the package shall be signed by the
precinct election commission members, and affixed with the election commission’s seal.
 5. A decision of a precinct election commission declaring voting at the election precinct to be
invalid, and the act on the basis of which such decision was adopted, shall be attached to the protocol
of the precinct election commission on vote counting at the election precinct.