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Article 24. Registers of voters (electors) and the order of their compilation
1. The registers of voters shall be compiled at elections of the President, deputies of the Mazhilis of Parliament and maslikhats, members of other local self-government bodies. The register of electors shall be compiled at elections of the Senate deputies.
2. (excluded by the Constitutional Act of RK of 14 April 2004 No. 545-II).
3. The grounds for inclusion of a citizen in the register of voters shall be the fact of his/her registration in the place of residence in the territory of the given electoral district.
4. The registers of voters shall be compiled in the alphabetic or other order. The register shall include the voter’s surname, given names, year of birth (for the persons of 18 year old the day and month of birth as well) and address of residence. The registers of electors shall be compiled in the alphabetic or other order and shall include the elector’s surname, given names, year of birth and the name of the maslikhat where the elector is a deputy as well as the address of residence.
5. The register of voters by place of residence shall be compiled by the corresponding local executive body on the basis of the data provided by the population accounting agencies.
Each voter shall be eligible to be registered as a voter in the corresponding local executive body from the moment of announcement or appointment of an election.
In case if not later than thirty days before elections a voter learns that he/she shall be unable to arrive on the Election Day to the polling station at the place of his/her registration, the voter shall be eligible to submit a written application to the local executive body in the place of his/her residence and to request his/her inclusion in the corresponding register of voters.
Upon an application of a citizen in compliance with this clause the local executive body shall arrange exclusion of the citizen from the register of voters in place of his/her registration and inclusion him/her in the register of voters in the electoral district where the named citizen shall vote.
The registers of voters by each electoral district shall be signed by the relevant akim and submitted by act to the corresponding election commission twenty days before beginning of voting.
The data on voters, preliminary compared with the data of other competent bodies and organizations shall be submitted by the local executive body in electronic and paper form to the corresponding territorial election commissions by 1 July and 1 January of each year.
The officials of local executive bodies shall bear responsibility for authenticity of the registers of voters and for the data on voters submitted to the corresponding election commission.
6. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of full-time courses who live in hostels shall be included in the registers of voters according to the location of their hostels.
7. The registers of voters, who are military servicemen in the military units as well as members of their families and other voters living in the locations of military units, shall be compiled on the basis of the data submitted by commanders of the military units.
8. The registers of voters by electoral districts to be formed in rest houses, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions, in places of the citizens’ stay in the remote areas, in the distant pastures, in investigative wards and detention centers as well as in the representative offices and agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan in foreign states, on board of ships belonging to the Republic of Kazakhstan that on the day of elections are in navigation shall be made based on the data submitted by the chiefs of the named establishments, corresponding akims, chiefs of the named representative offices and agencies and captains of ships.
The registers of voters by electoral districts to be formed in the places for temporary stay (rest homes, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions, in the outruns, in investigative wards and detention centers, including the representative offices of the Republic of Kazakhstan à abroad, on board the ships belonging to the Republic that are in navigation on the Election Day) shall be subject to mandatory adjustment on the day preceding the Election Day.
9. The registers of electors at election of deputies to the Senate of the Parliament shall be compiled by the corresponding territorial election commissions upon the presentation by the secretary of the corresponding oblast, urban (the city of the republican status and the capital of the Republic) maslikhats.
10. Making changes in the register of votes since the beginning of vote count shall be prohibited.
Article 24 includes the changes introduced by the Constitutional Act of RK of 14 April 2004 No. 545-II; 15 April 2005 No. 44-III.
Article 25. Inclusion in the registers of voters (electors)
1. The registers of voters:
1) shall include the citizens of the Republic with positive suffrage;
2) shall include the citizens registered in the place of their residence in the territory of the corresponding electoral district;
3) in electoral districts to be formed in rest houses, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions, in places of the citizens’ stay in the remote areas, in the distant pastures, in investigative wards and detention centers and boards of ships belonging to the Republic of Kazakhstan that on the day of elections are in navigation shall include all citizens, who on the Election Day stay in the named institutions and organizations or on the board the ships;
4) in military units shall include all military servicemen, who stay in military units as well as their family members and other voters living in the locations of military units. The military servicemen living outside the military units shall be included in the registers of voters in the place of their residence on the general grounds;
5) in the polling stations formed in the representative offices of Republic in foreign states shall include all citizens who live or are in continuous business trip in the corresponding foreign state and who have valid passports of the Republic’s citizens.
Citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan arriving in foreign states by private invitations, to business and tourist trips shall be included in the registers of voters upon their application to precinct election commission and submission of valid passport of the Republic’s citizen.
2. The registers of electors shall include all deputies of:
1) maslikhats, located in the territory of oblast;
2) maslikhat of the city of the republican status and the capital of the Republic.
3. A citizen (elector) can be included only in one register of voters (electors).
Article 25 includes the changes introduced by the Constitutional Act of RK of 14 April 2004 No. 545-II; 15 April 2005 No. 44-III.
Article 26. Familiarization with the registers of voters (electors)
1. The registers of voters by electoral districts to be formed in the place of residence of citizens shall be submitted by the corresponding election commissions to voters for their familiarization with the named registers fifteen days before the day of election.
The registers of voters by electoral districts to be formed in military units, on board the ships belonging to the Republic of Kazakhstan that on the day of elections are in navigation, in rest houses, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions, in places of the citizens’ stay in the remote areas, in the distant pastures, in investigative wards and detention centers as well as in the representations of the Republic of Kazakhstan in foreign states shall be submitted to the voters for their familiarization five days before the day of election; in electoral districts to be formed at elections of members of other local self-government bodies - seven days before the day of election.
2. The registers of electors at elections of the Senate deputies shall be submitted for public familiarization by their publication in local mass media not less than seven days before elections.
3. In the premises of the corresponding election commissions citizens (electors) shall be provided with opportunity to be familiarized with the registers of voters (electors) and check the correctness of the data about voters (electors).
Working hours of precinct election commissions, except the day of voting, shall be established by the corresponding territorial election commissions.
4. Every citizen (elector) shall be eligible to check the data about him/her in the registers of voters and appeal against the non-inclusion, incorrect inclusion or exclusion from the register as well as against inaccuracies in the data about a voter (elector). Applications about inclusion in or exclusion from the registers, making corrections in the registers shall be considered by the corresponding election commission on the day of the receipt of the application to the election commission. In case of refusal of the application the election commission shall immediately issue a copy of decision on the motivated refusal of application. The decision can be appealed in the corresponding court in the location of the election commission, which shall consider the appeal on the day of its receipt and shall make its final judgment. In case of positive for an applicant decision the correction in the register of voters (electors) or inclusion of a voter in the register of voters must be done by the precinct election commission immediately.
Article 26 includes the changes introduced by the Constitutional Act of RK of 14 April 2004 No. 545-II; 9 February 2009 No. 124-IV.
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