Deputies propose stamping the passports of absentee voters and banning the expulsion of observers

The draft was developed by the relevant committee on state building and local self-government of Anatoliy Matviyenko by deputies Klyuchkovsky, Ivancho, Asadchev, Bondarenko.

The draft law concerns only a possible re-vote in December 2004. According to it, the repeat voting on _ December 2004 takes place with the following specifics.

The President submits a proposal to terminate the powers of the current CEC and submits new candidates taking into account the proposals of factions and ensuring parity representation of the presidential candidates, who are approved by parliament.

The CEC, after the appointment of its members, no later than 15 days before the day of repeat voting, forms territorial election commissions, and no later than 10 days the territorial election commissions form precinct election commissions.

Presidential candidates, no later than 17 days before the day of repeat voting, submit to the CEC proposals regarding candidates for the composition of territorial election commissions – five candidates to each commission, no later than 12 days for the composition of precinct commissions.

At the same time, both candidates must have an equal number of positions of head and secretary of territorial and precinct election commissions. And the head and secretary of the precinct election commission must be representatives of different candidates.

The powers of a territorial or precinct election commission cannot be terminated early.

The decision on early termination of powers of a member of an election commission is adopted simultaneously with the decision on inclusion in the composition of the corresponding election commission of another representative from the same candidate.

10 days before the elections, territorial election commissions form a new voter list on the basis of the list from October 31, while persons included in the voter list on the basis of absentee certificates for the right to vote on election day are not included in the voter list for repeat voting.

Minor and technical errors in the voter list on voting day may be corrected by the head and secretary of the precinct commission.

Election ballots for repeat voting are produced in a quantity exceeding by one percent the number of voters included in the voter lists.

Absentee certificates are produced in a quantity of 0.5 percent of the number of voters entered in the voter lists.

When issuing an absentee certificate, in the passport of a citizen of Ukraine on the page "Special Notes" representatives of both candidates place the precinct stamp and signatures, which is crossed out after the person has voted.

The CEC, no later than 12 hours before the start of voting, submits to territorial commissions information on the expected number of voters who will vote by absentee certificates, and in each district a precinct is determined where they cast their votes.

Voting outside the precinct is carried out only for voters who are first-group disabled persons and unable to move independently upon a personally written application.

During the repeat voting at the election precinct in the premises where voting is conducted, at meetings of election commissions during vote counting, establishment of voting results at election precincts and the results of voting within the district, only members of higher-level election commissions, candidates, their authorized persons, official observers from candidates (together no more than four observers from each candidate, regardless of whose proposal they were registered), as well as official observers from foreign states and international organizations, and media representatives have the right to be present.

The PEC, after the end of voting, before the start of vote counting, informs the territorial election commission about: the number of voters who received election ballots at the election precinct at the time of the end of voting.

The precinct commission may declare the voting invalid under the following conditions: 1) discovery in the ballot boxes of election ballots in a quantity exceeding by more than five percent the number of voters who received election ballots; deprivation of official observers and media representatives of the right to be present during the repeat voting at the election precinct.

The establishment of election results by the CEC is carried out only after the expiration of the appeal period and consideration of complaints by the relevant election commissions and courts.

A complaint against a decision of the Central Election Commission, including on the establishment of the results of the election of the President of Ukraine, as well as actions or inaction of the Central Election Commission, is filed with the Supreme Court of Ukraine within a seven-day period.