Article 24. Publication of the lists of voters and the right to appeal the errors

24.1 The lists of voters are available for review by the general public at least 15 days prior to the date of the elections.

24.2 Complaints regarding inaccuracies in the lists of voters are to be reviewed by the Precinct Electoral Commission within two days, immediately on the eve of the election. The Committee discusses the complaint and, introduces the necessary adjustments to the list or rejects the complaint, providing the applicant with a copy of the mentioned decision.

24.3 Changes are introduced to the lists of voters on the day of election by the decision of the chairman of the Precinct Electoral Commission, provided the voter submits his/her passport, or any other document substituting the passport, along with a corresponding record of his/her residence, or presents a certificate from the competent body verifying their inclusion on the list of community taxpayers for the last 3 consecutive years.

24.4 Adjustments to the lists of voters are conducted by the Community Electoral Commission chairman by compiling an additional list, with the signature of the committee chairman beside the name of each voter. In the additional lists of voters, the enumeration of voters continues the numbers from the main list of voters.

24.5 The decision of the Precinct Electoral Commission or its chairman can be appealed to a court of law.

24.6 Adjustments to a list of voters requested by a court of law is introduced immediately.

25.1 The election of the community leader and members of the community council are conducted by separate ballots.

25.2 The ballot is a list of paper printed in a printshop, which can be folded four times, the place reserved for voting remarks being located in the inner side . If the elections of the community leader and the member of community counc ils are conducted simultaneously, then the ballots are printed in a way to differ from each other when folded.

25.3 Ballots list, in alphabetical order, the first and last names of the candidates, his/her party membership, place of employment and occupation.

26.1 The s tamp ensuring the validity of the ballot is produced by industrial technology. It has to have three letter series number and a four digit number. The stamps ensuring the validity of the ballots are produced according to the order of Central Electoral Committee according to the specimen, approved by the committee.

26.2 The Central Electoral Commission packs the stamps in dark parcels, without making remarks on it, seals it and hands it to Regional Electoral Commission making only a quantitative control of the stamps, not earlier, than 5 days prior to the day of elections and not later, than 3 days prior to the day of elections.

26.3 The Regional Electoral Commission is putting each parcel into an envelope. The envelopes are stamped and enumerated. The Regional Electoral Commission distributes the envelopes by random selection to the chairmen of Precinct Electoral Commissions on the eve of elections, one stamp per 1,000 voters, registering the number of the envelope and making a corresponding entry in the register.

27.1 Voting documents are disbursed and received by the Electoral Commissions with a mandatory entry in the register containing the signatures of the presenter and recipient, as well as registration of the transaction by the issuance of a receipt.

27.2 The ballots are allocated to the Electoral Commissions in the quantity of the number of voters in the list added 50 percent of that quantity.

27.3 All electoral documents, after summarizing the results of the elections, are sent to the REC within three days. The REC provides protection for the documents for two months from the day of summarization of the results of elections and, in the case of a legal dispute, until the final decision is adopted.

28.1 Voting takes place on the day of the elections from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the precinct centers.

29.1 The voting takes place in precinct centers, in specially allocated buildings, where a sufficient number of booths or rooms must be furnished to conduct the secret ballot, one booth or room for each 500 voters, and tables installed for clean ballots.

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