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Instruction for Organization of a Uniform Procedure for Tabulation of Voting Returns, Completion of Protocols of Election Commissions, Receipt, Transmission and Processing of Information by Means of the State Automated System of the Russian Federation «Vybory» in the Election of the President of the Russian Federation
APPROVED
by Resolution of the Central Election Commission
of the Russian Federation
No.81/961-3 of February 11, 2000
1. General
1. This Instruction has been drafted in pursuance of Clause 1, Article 17; Clause 34, Article 69; Article 76 of the Federal Law «On the Election of the President of the Russian Federation.»
2. The legal basis for the use of the State Automated System of the Russian Federation «Vybory» (hereafter «SAS «Vybory») in the election of the President of the Russian Federation has been laid down by the Federal Law «On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum,» the Federal Law «On the Election of the President of the Russian Federation,» Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 227 of February 28, 1995 «On Ensuring the Creation, Operation and Development of the State Automated System of the Russian Federation «Vybory,» normative acts of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.
3. Under Article 76 of the Federal Law «On the Election of the President of the Russian Federation» (hereafter «the Federal Law») the SAS «Vybory» is to be used by election commissions from the beginning of voting and up to signing of the protocol of voting returns for monitoring the progress of voting and for tabulating voting returns by means of transmission of data form the lower-level to the higher-level election commissions.
Under Clause 7, Article 76 of the Federal Law the data concerning the progress of voting and voting returns received through the state automated information system shall be regarded as preliminary information of no legal significance.
4. Whenever the SAS «Vybory» is to be used the election commission shall form a supervisory group consisting of voting and non-voting members of the commission to supervise the use of the SAS «Vybory.» All members of the election commission as well as observers shall have the right to examine any information entered into the SAS «Vybory.»
The supervisory groups shall be formed not later than March 14 of the current year by the decision of the election commission of the Subject of the Russian Federation, the decisions of the territorial election commissions.
The supervisory group shall check the operational readiness of the complex of automation facilities (hereafter «CAF»); exercise control over proper entry of data from the protocols of election commissions and over proper re-entry or correction of the entered data carried out by the decision of the appropriate election commission; monitor compliance with the requirements of the Federal Law, the instructions and other normative documents of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation relating to the use of the state automated information system, including ballot scanners or other technical facilities for vote counting; check mandatory documentation of the performance of actions prescribed by the rules and the plans of election commissions (entries in the log, records, certificates, computer printouts certified by the signatures of the supervisory group members). The supervisory group may engage in its work specialists in the field of automated data processing systems.
The members of the supervisory group shall be responsible for compliance with the electoral laws, normative acts of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, resolutions of the election commission of the given Subject of the Russian Federation, requirements of this Instruction, accuracy, timeliness and correctness of the entered and transmitted information.
5. If the election of the President of the Russian Federation, repeat elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the third convocation, elections to the bodies of state power of the given Subject of the Russian Federation, elections to bodies of local self-government are held simultaneously, when entering the data of the protocols of precinct election commissions the territorial election commissions shall first enter the data of the protocols of voting returns of precinct election commissions in the election of the President of the Russian Federation, then the data of repeat elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the third convocation, and then all other data.
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