§ Art. IV-27Compiling Preliminary Voter Lists

1. For preparation and conduct of voting in elections or referendums, the Register
maintenance body shall, for each election precinct established in its territory, which the Register
maintenance body covers, according to its scope of powers, as well as for each special election
precinct established in a penitentiary institution, compile a preliminary voter list based on the
information contained in the Register. The Register maintenance body in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Ukraine shall compile preliminary voter lists for each out-of-country election precinct.
 At special election precincts established in inpatient healthcare establishments, on ships which on
the day of voting are sailing under the National Flag of Ukraine, at Ukraine’s polar stations, pretrial
detention centers and other places of temporary stay of voters with restricted ability to move, voter lists
shall be compiled by respective precinct election commissions pursuant to the procedure established by
the Law.
 The information provided for in Article 22 of this Law shall be submitted by the respective bodies,
establishments, institutions in ten days prior to the day of handing over preliminary voter lists to regular
election precincts. The information shall be submitted for the time period from the date of the last
submission of the information to the Register maintenance body until the day prior to the day of the
submission thereof.
 2. A preliminary voter list in an election precinct shall include citizens of Ukraine who have
reached or, as of the day of voting in the election or referendum, will have reached 18 years of age and
who shall have the right to vote and who belong to this election precinct, in accordance with the data
of the Register.
 The voter list shall not include persons whose records are contained in the database of the Register,
but who, according to the personal data of the Register, shall not have the right to vote, are deceased or
have left (including temporarily, as of the day of voting) from the place of their electoral address.
 When a voter, whose place of voting has been temporarily changed, is included in the preliminary
voter list, a note thereof shall be made in the column “Notes” next to his or her last name.
 3. Preliminary voter lists shall be drawn up in a form established by the Central Election
Commission in accordance with the requirements of Parts five and six of this Article.
 4. Preliminary voter lists shall have continuous numbering and sheet numbering. The
information on voters in the voter lists in regular election precincts shall be provided in a way that
voters with the same electoral address are placed next to each other. The information on voters in the
voter lists for an out-of-country election precinct shall be provided in the manner convenient for
the conduct of voting.
 Preliminary voter lists shall contain the following information about each voter:
 1) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any);
 2) date of birth;

 

 3) electoral address (without indication of the postal code and the country of residence or
 stay);
 4) a note on a voter’s permanent inability to move independently (if there are grounds) in
 the column “Notes.”
 5. A preliminary voter list for a regular election precinct shall be made on paper in one copy,
each sheet of which shall be signed by the head of the Register maintenance body and affixed with
the seal of this body.
 A preliminary voter list for an out-of-country election precinct shall be transferred to the respective
election commission in electronic form.
 6. The procedure and the deadlines for handing over the preliminary voter lists to election
precincts shall be determined by the Law.