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| The authorities of the Central Election Commission of the RK |
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The Central Election Commission acts as a permanent body heading the single system of the election commissions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Central Election Commission shall consist of the Chairman and six members.
Expenses on maintenance of the Central Election Commission and its personnel are covered from the Republican budget.
According to the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan the Central Election Commission:
• implements on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan control over execution of the Legislation on Elections; provides for its uniform application; makes decisions within the limits of its competency boundary for execution across the territory of the Republic;
• organizes preparation and holding of elections of the President and of the Parliament Majilis deputies; supervises over organization and holding of elections of the Parliament Senate deputies;
• considers the issue of admission of political parties to participation in elections of a part of the Parliament Majilis deputies who are elected under party lists;
• makes up and submits to the Government of the Republic an estimate of expenditures on conducting of an election campaign;
• exercises management over election commissions on elections of the President, deputies of the Parliament; cancels and suspends their decisions; distributes among them the funds from the Republican budget allocated for conducting of election campaigns; controls creation of the required material and technical conditions for the activities of election commissions; considers applications and petitions related to decisions and actions (inactivity) of the territorial and district election commissions; conducts workshops with representatives of political parties on organization and holding of elections; implements international cooperation in the area of electoral systems;
• establishes the form and text of the ballots for Elections of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the form of the ballots for elections of deputies to the Parliament, maslikhats and members of other local self-administration bodies, the order of their production, and also the degree of security, the forms of voter's lists (electors), a subscription sheet for collection of electors’ signatures in support of candidates in Presidents and collection of electors’ signatures in support of candidates in deputies of the Senate, other election documents, the form of ballot-boxes made of transparent material and samples of seals of the election commissions, the order of storage of election documents; provides production of ballots for Elections of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and election of deputies to the Parliament and maslikhats;
• determines procedures for preparation and issue of absentee voting ballots;
• has the right to hear to the reports of the state bodies and organizations on the issues related to preparation and holding of elections and also to the information of the bodies of public associations on the issues of observance of the legislation on Elections;
• registers candidates to the President of the Republic, their proxies, issues for them the corresponding certificates, publishes in mass media accounts on registration of candidates;
• informs voters on the course of the election campaign on Elections of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and election of the deputies to the Parliament, periodically issues information bulletins;
• sums up the results of the Elections of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the elections of the deputies of the Parliament across the Republic, registers the elected President and deputies of the Parliament, publishes the press accounts in mass media;
• sets and organizes conducting of the repeated voting and repeated elections at Elections of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• sets repeated elections of the Parliament deputies;
• sets elections of the Parliament deputies to replace the retired members;
• sets the regular and extraordinary elections of maslikhats;
• at organization and holding of elections of Maslikhats and other local self-administration bodies, the Central Election Commission exercises the methodological management of the territorial election commissions and control over eligibility of their activities to the provisions and requirements of the present Constitutional Act. At revealing of infringements of the present Constitutional Act, the Central Election Commission resorts to the body that forms the election commission or to the court with an application to cease the activity of the corresponding election commission;
• depending on the number of the population of the administrative and territorial areas determines the number of the deputies of maslikhats to be elected on behalf of them;
• places on the official web-site of the Central Election Commission the normative legal acts on the election legislation, information on timing and holding of elections and also on the results of votes’ counting at the last elections;
• conducts a uniform electronic Registration register of citizens - voters of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• at holding of the elections using the electronic electoral system, conducts trainings for the members of the corresponding election commissions on application of the electronic system;
• through mass media organizes trainings for the population on use of the electronic electoral system at elections;
• implements other authorities
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