§ Art. IV-252Declaration 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 the expression of the voters’ will, only under the following
circumstances:
 1) discovery of cases of illegal voting (filling in, depositing the ballot into the ballot box for a
 voter by another person, except for the cases provided for in parts five and ten of Article
 248 of this Code; voting by persons who do not have the right to vote in the respective
 elections; voting by persons not included into the list of voters at the election precinct or
 included in it unwarrantedly; voting by a person more than once) in the amount exceeding
 5 percent of the number of voters who received ballot papers at the election precinct for the
 respective local election;
 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 is exceeding five percent
 of the number of voters who received ballot papers at the election precinct for the respective
 local election;
 3) discovery in the ballot boxes of ballot papers in a number that exceeds more than ten percent
 of the number of voters who received ballot papers at the election precinct for the respective
 local election.

 

 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, which shall be signed by all present
members of the precinct election commission present and certified by the seal of the election
commission. Such an act (acts) shall be the basis for consideration by the precinct election commission
of the issue of declaring the voting at the election precinct from the respective local election in the
respective election district as invalid.
 3. Should a decision be made on declaring the voting in a specific local election 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 the counting
of votes cast at the precinct for territorial electoral lists of candidates 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 10,000 voters and more) must contain only the
information specified in paragraphs two to nine of part two of Article 251 of this Code, and the
protocol of the precinct election commission on the counting of votes cast at the election precinct
for candidates in the multi-member district, or for the position of village, settlement or city mayor
– the information specified in paragraphs seventeen to twenty-four of the second part of Article
251 of this Code. In the other places, a dash shall be inserted. The protocols of the precinct election
commission on vote counting shall be completed by the precinct election commission in
accordance with the procedure prescribed by Article 251 of this Code.
 4. If a precinct election commission adopts a decision to declare voting in a specific local election
at the election precinct invalid, the ballot papers shall be packed. The inscription “Ballot papers” shall
be made on the package, with an indication and/or the number of the election 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. The decision of a precinct election commission to declare voting at the election precinct invalid and
the act (acts) on the basis of which such decision was adopted shall be attached to the first copy of the protocol
of the precinct election commission on the vote counting at the election precinct for the respective local election.