§ Art. III-178Procedure for Transportation and Delivery of Election Documents to District Election

Commission or to the Central Election Commission (as regards the Out-Of-Country Election
 District)
 1. The election documents specified in Part ten of Article 176 of this Code shall be transported
by the chair or the deputy chair of the precinct election commission and two other members of this
election commission representing two other parties, in support of the regional lists of which the
highest number of votes were cast at the election precinct, who shall be accompanied by a
representative of the police, or by representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine, if necessary, upon
request of the Central Election Commission. Other members of the precinct election commission, MP
candidates, and official observers may, if they choose, accompany the transportation of the election
documents. Other persons shall be prohibited from accompanying the transportation of the election
documents. Unpacking the packages with the ballot papers and other election documents during
transportation shall be prohibited.
 If simultaneously with the election of MPs other elections are held, the election documents related
to such elections shall be transported to the respective election commission by members of the precinct
election commission who will not participate in transporting the election documents related to the
election of MPs to the district election commission.
 The secretary of the precinct election commission, as well as other members of the commission not
accompanying the election documents during their transportation to the district election commission,
shall stay in the premises of the precinct election commission until they are notified of the acceptance
by the district election commission of the protocols of the precinct election commission on vote
counting at the election precinct. During the transportation of the election documents, the precinct
election commission’s seal and blank protocols of the precinct election commissions on vote counting
at the election precinct, unless they were used for drawing up the protocols with the mark “Corrected”
prior to the dispatch of those protocols together with the election documents to the district election
commission, shall be kept in the safe (metal case) in the premises of the precinct election commission.
 2. The protocol on vote counting at the election precinct and other documents of the precinct
election commission shall be handed over to the respective district election commission at its meeting.
 3. The contents of the protocol on vote counting at an out-of-country election precinct, upon
its signing by the precinct election commission members, shall be immediately sent by the precinct
election commission via technical means of communication to the Central Election Commission
(through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine), followed by mandatory delivery of the first and
second copies of the protocol on vote counting at the election precinct, in the manner prescribed by the
Central Election Commission. The protocol shall be appended with other documents specified in Part
ten of Article 176 of this Code.
 4. The contents of the protocol on vote counting at a special election precinct established on a
ship sailing, as of the day of voting, under the National Flag of Ukraine, or at Ukraine’s polar station,
upon its signing by the precinct election commission members, shall be immediately sent by the precinct
election commission via technical means of communication to the respective district election
commission, followed by mandatory delivery of the first and second copies of the protocol on vote
counting at the election precinct, in the manner prescribed by the Central Election Commission. The
protocol shall be appended with other documents specified in Part ten of Article 176 of this Code.