§ Art. IV-249Procedure for Organizing Voting at Voters’ Place of Stay

1. A precinct election commissions shall ensure that voters who are included in the voter list of
the precinct and are incapable of moving independently due to his or her health disorder (due to
disability, temporary health disorders or age) are able to vote at the place of their stay.
 2. On the last day before the day of voting, each precinct election commission shall create, at its
meeting, an excerpt from the voter list, in a form established by the Central Election Commission, for
the purpose of organizing voting by those who are incapable of moving independently at the place of
their stay.
 As soon as this excerpt has been created, it shall be immediately posted on the premises of the
precinct election commission for public review.
 3. The following voters may be included in the excerpt from the voter list:
 1) without a decision of the commission, a voter specially marked in the voter list as
 permanently incapable of moving independently, unless such voter notifies the precinct
 election commission, in writing or in person, by 12:00 noon on the last Saturday prior to the
 day of voting of his or her wish to vote in the premises for voting;
 2) upon a decision of the commission, a voter being temporarily incapable of moving
 independently, which decision must be based on his or her application and certificate of his
 or her health issued by a medical institution.
 4. When entering a voter in the excerpt from the voter list for voting at places of voters’ stay, the
secretary of the precinct election commission shall make an entry “votes at place of stay” in the column
“Voter’s signature” of the voter list of the election precinct.
 5. A voter being temporarily incapable of moving independently shall file, by postal mail or
through a third person, a handwritten application in his or her own handwriting requesting that he or
she be provided with an opportunity to vote at the place of his or her stay, with an indication of the
voter’s place of stay. Such an application shall be submitted, along with a certificate of the voter’s
health issued by a medical institution, to the precinct election commission no later 20:00 of the last
Friday prior to the day of voting.
 6. It shall be the responsibility of a voter to file the application provided for by Part five of this
Article to ensure compliance with the requirements relating to the voting procedure provided for by this
Code.
 7. At special election precincts established in inpatient care establishments, voting at the place of
voters’ stay shall be conducted on the basis of a voter’s application, in his or her own handwriting, with

 

a request to be provided with the opportunity to vote at his or her place of stay, in view of his or her
need to be confined to bed.
 8. An application by a voter to vote at the place of his or her stay shall be registered by the precinct
election commission in a separate register, indicating the day and time of the receipt of the application,
and also the last name, first name, patronymic name, and address of the voter’s place of residence (place
of stay).
 9. Voting at voters’ place of stay shall be organized by no less than three members of the precinct
election commission appointed by a decision of the election commission. Such election commission
members shall be representatives of different subjects nominating members to the election commissions.
 10. Voting at voters’ place of stay shall be organized in such a way that the precinct election
commission members involved in organizing such voting will be able to return to the premises for
voting no later than one hour prior to the end of voting.
 11. The chair of a precinct election commission shall announce the departure of the precinct
election commission members who are conducting voting at voters’ place of stay in the precinct. The
chair of the precinct election commission shall provide the appointed election commission members
with the excerpt from the voter list created in compliance with Part two of this Article. Simultaneously,
the election commission members shall be provided with one copy of each party organization’s
information brochures and information posters for the respective multi-member election district,
and with a sealed (or taped) mobile ballot box into which a control sheet shall be deposited. The control
sheet shall contain the following information: the ballot box number; the time at which the appointed
election commission members departed (in hours and minutes); the numbers of ballot papers received
by them separately for each type of the local elections; and the last names of the appointed election
commission members which received the ballot papers. The control sheet shall be signed by all the
election commission members present, whose signatures shall be certified by the seal of the commission
and, upon request, by candidates for local council, candidates for village, settlement or city mayor,
candidates’ agents, party organizations’ authorized persons, or official observers.
 12. Local council candidates, candidates for village, settlement or city mayor, candidates’ agents,
party organizations’ authorized persons and official observers have the right to be present during the
conduct of voting at voters’ place of stay.
 13. A voter or his or her family members may not refuse entry to any of the commission members
appointed to conduct voting at voters’ place of stay, or to any candidate for local council, a candidate
for village, settlement or city mayor, a candidate’s agent, a party organization’s authorized person, or
an official observer, that have the right to be present during the voting. In the event that the
aforementioned persons are denied entry into the voter’s place of stay, the voter in question shall not
be provided with the opportunity to vote at his or her place of stay.
 14. In the event of organizing voting at a voter’s place of stay, a member of the precinct election
commission shall, based on the excerpt from the voter list, issue to the voter, provided that the latter
presents one of the documents specified in the clauses 1 and 2 of Part one of Article 8 of this Code, a
ballot paper for voting. When issuing the ballot paper, the precinct election commission member shall
enter his or her last name and initials and put his or her signature in the designated place on the
counterfoil of the ballot paper, as well as indicating the number of the voter in the voter list.
 A voter shall put his or her signature on the counterfoils of the ballot papers and in the excerpt
from the voter list.
 The member of the election commission shall detach the counterfoils from the ballot papers that are
to be issued to a voter, and hand ballot papers for voting in each local election, one by one, over to the
voter. The counterfoils of the ballot papers shall be stored by the member of the commission who
handed over the ballot papers.
 Another member of the election commission shall present to a voter a copy of each party
organization’s information brochures and information posters for the respective territorial election
district.

 

 The voter shall fill out the ballot paper by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure established
by parts seven, eight of Article 248 of this Code, using, if necessary, information brochures and
information posters of organizations of parties that are subjects of the election process for the
Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, an oblast, rayon, rayon in city, as well as city,
village or settlement council (of a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters), and deposits the
ballots to a portable ballot box. A member of the voter’s family or a person caring for him/her has the
right to be present during the voter’s voting, to help him/her to fill in the ballot paper and to deposit it
in the ballot box if the voter has health problems (due to disability, temporary health disorder or age)
and cannot perform these actions on their own. After voting, the voter returns to the members of the
precinct election commission the copies of information brochures and information posters of party
organizations received by him.
 15. Members of the precinct election commission shall be entitled to verify the fact of a voter’s
temporary inability to move independently in accordance with the procedure specified by the Central
Election Commission.
 16. If a voter included in the excerpt from the voter list for voting at voters’ place of stay arrives at
the premises for voting after the precinct election commission members have departed to conduct voting
at voters’ place of stay, that voter may not be issued ballot papers for voting until the return of the
commission members in charge of organizing voting at voters’ place of stay and until it has been
determined that the voter has not already voted at the place of his or her stay.
 17. After a voter has voted at his or her place of stay, the precinct election commission member
who issued the ballot paper to the voter shall put the mark “voted at the place of stay” next to the voter’s
name, enter his or her own last name, and put his or her signature.
 18. The excerpt from the voter list used for voting at voters’ place of stay shall be appended to the
voter list and be deemed to be an integral part thereof. The voter list shall be appended with voters’
written applications, certificates from medical institutions, and copies of the respective decisions by the
precinct election commission.
 19. If the Central Election Commission decides to conduct an experiment or pilot project using
innovative technologies in accordance with part one of Article 18 of this Code, the respective election
commissions shall organize voting in such an experiment or pilot project simultaneously with the
actions provided for in this article and provided by this Code.
 Voters may participate in an experiment or pilot project using innovative technologies only if they
vote simultaneously in the manner prescribed by this article.
 Voters cannot be forced to participate in an experiment or pilot project using innovative
technologies.