election.kz Electronic Electoral System : Central Election Commission Kazakhstan

Organisation : Central Election Commission Kazakhstan
Facility : Electronic Electoral System
Country : Kazakhstan

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The electronic electoral system :
1. At holding of elections for compilation of the electoral registers, voting, determination of results of voting and determination of the election returns, the electronic electoral system can be used on the territory of the electoral district.
At holding of elections with the use of the electronic electoral system, the norms of the present Constitutional Act are applied with taking into account of the specific features in the use of the electronic electoral system.

2. The electronic electoral system – a block of information technologies, information networks and the means of their software and hardware provisions intended for automation of the information processes at preparation and holding of elections.
The software and hardware means used in the electronic electoral system shall be certificated according to the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

3. At holding of elections using the electronic electoral system, the proxies, observers and representatives of mass media shall enjoy a complete volume of rights and responsibilities stipulated by the present Constitutional Act.

4. The electronic electoral system is used after it is approved by the state commission formed in the order determined by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The election districts and polling stations where the electronic electoral system will be used shall be defined by the Central Election Commission depending on their readiness to use the electronic system for voting.

5. The equipment of the electronic electoral system is opened and installed in the presence of the members of the local election commission not less than three days prior to the ballot day with issuing of a formal act to state about it.
The proxies of candidates, observers and representatives of mass media have the right to be present at the moment of opening and installation of the equipment.
The employees of the bodies of internal affairs will ensure protection of the electoral district from the moment of the equipment installation of the electronic electoral system.

6. The local executive bodies shall ensure an uninterrupted supply of electric power to the sites where the electronic voting is taking place on the ballot day starting from the moment of opening of the polling station and till submission of the results of voting to the Central election commission.

7. The order of use of the electronic electoral system in respect to the part of it which is not regulated by the present Constitutional Act shall be stipulated by the Central Election Commission.

The requirements to the electronic electoral system :
1. The electronic electoral system should ensure observance of the provisions and requirements of the Constitution and the present Constitutional Act, authenticity, completeness and timeliness of the information entered and removed from it.
2. The electronic electoral system should be provided with the adequate measures of safety excluding non-authorized access to information, infringement of functioning of the software and hardware means of collecting, processing, accruing, storage, search and transmission of information, deactivating of the named means.

3. At use at elections of the electronic electoral system it is not allowed:
To use other electronic systems, except for the ones defined by the Central Election Commission;
To connect it to the public telecommunication networks and other information systems and the communication networks which are not applied in the electronic electoral system;
Illegal intervention and control over conducting of the electronic voting, votes counting, transmission of information on the election returns.

4. The electronic electoral system should include the software and hardware means (the system of data recording about voting), allowing automatically in accordance with the input to save any entered information with the description of actions and indication the exact time of the data input.

Premises for voting with the use of the electronic electoral system :
1. The premises for voting with the use of the electronic electoral system shall be equipped in the way that ensures for the persons present in the given premise a better view of what is going on during voting with use of the electronic electoral system, except for voting in a polling booth.
2. Only an expert who has received the admission to service the electronic electoral system in the order established by the Central Election Commission can stay in the premise for voting with the use of the electronic electoral system

The electronic ballot paper :
1. At holding of elections with the use of the electronic electoral system, voting is made by the electronic ballot created by the means of the electronic electoral system.
2. The text of the electronic ballot is made in the state and Russian languages and should conform to the requirements established in item 1 of article 37 of the present Constitutional Act.

Organization of the electronic voting :
1. The chairman of the election commission thirty minutes prior to the beginning of voting in the presence of the members of the commission:
** Checks the serviceability of functioning of the electronic electoral system;
** Defines the members of the commission responsible for registering of voters and issue of devices for electronic voting.
** The proxies, observers and representatives of mass media have the right to be present during checking of the work of the electronic electoral system in the premise for voting.
** Nobody is allowed to exercise any actions with the electronic electoral system, except for the cases stipulated by the present chapter.

2. Prior to the beginning of voting the chairman of the election commission unseals the sealed password to start the electronic electoral system and starts the electronic electoral system through it’s launching. At that, the persons who are present must be ensured a possibility to be convinced beforehand of the integrity of protection measures in respect to the password.
3. The voter is allowed to the electronic voting on the basis of the electoral registers on presentation of the document certificating the personality of the voter.

4. In case of voting outside the premise for voting according to the present Constitutional Act, voters vote with the help of the portable device for voting which should be equipped with a device to save the data on votes of all voters outside the premise for voting of voters.
On the basis of voters’ applications submitted in compliance with item 6 of article 41 of the present Constitutional Act, the data about them obtained from the electoral register shall be entered beforehand in the portable devices for electronic voting.

5. The electronic voting is conducted by the voter in a polling booth for secret vote where presence of other persons is forbidden except for the voter and except for the cases stipulated by item 1 of article 42 of the present Constitutional Act.
** The voter finds on the electronic ballot the surname of the candidate for whom he/she wants to vote and by using the control elements of the device for electronic voting confirms his/her vote for the selected candidate.
** At voting for political parties, the voter by use of the control elements of the device for electronic voting finds the name of the political party for which he/she wants to vote and confirms the vote.
** The voter who has voted in a polling booth hands over the device for electronic voting to a member of the election commission.

6. In case of rise of technical malfunctions which interfere with conducting of the electronic voting and votes’ counting, the election commission has the right to make a decision about reloading of the program, with an issue of the minutes to be signed by members of the election commission.
Execution of the given decision is assigned to the expert providing operation of the electronic electoral system.

7. If the technical state of the equipment does not allow conducting of the elections in the proper way, then, the voting in the corresponding polling station shall be postponed by the decision of the Central or corresponding territorial election commission for the term needed for a fault removal and organization of voting.
The voters who have voted in the corresponding polling station till before occurrence of such malfunctions shall participate in the subsequent voting on the general basis.

Counting of votes at use of the electronic electoral system :
1. At use of the electronic voting, counting of votes is made by the electronic electoral system.
The counting of votes begins at the time fixed according to the present Constitutional Act, but not earlier than the data contained in all devices for voting in the place for voting is entered in the electronic electoral system.
The data on the counting of votes should be entered and fixed in the device for the data on voting.

2. The information on the results of the electronic voting in the polling station is entered by the electronic system to the electronic minutes which are certified by the electronic digital signatures of the commission members.
The copy of the electronic minutes on the paper bearer, signed by the members of election commission is hung out in the premise of a polling station in a specially arranged place for public familiarization and will be kept in the premise for two days.

3. At request of the person who according to the given Constitutional Act has the right to be present during counting of voices, he/she will be given a copy of the electronic minutes on the results of the electronic voting on the paper bearer, certified by signatures of the chairman and the secretary of the commission and the seal of the corresponding election commission.

Determination of the results of elections using the electronic electoral system :
1. In case of using the electronic electoral system the results of elections conducted in the electoral districts shall be determined by the Central Election Commission on the basis of the electronic minutes and submitted to the corresponding election commissions.
The electronic electoral system is connected to the specially allocated lines of communication only for the term needed for transmission of the information obtained in compliance with the present item.

2. In case the voting is postponed in compliance with the order stipulated by item 7 of article 50-5 of the present Constitutional Act, the results of elections in the corresponding electoral district are determined after conducting of voting in all polling places/stations for voting of the electoral district.

Appeal against the election returns with the use of the electronic electoral system :
1. At the appeal against the results of voting using the electronic electoral system in the higher election commission or the court, the device for data recording on voting is considered as the evidence.
2. For the purposes of the present article, the device for data recording on voting is kept in the corresponding oblast (the city of the Republican status, the capital of the Republic) territorial election commission.

Storage of devices for data recording on voting :
After counting of the votes the device for data recording on voting is packed into the original package, sealed by the seal of the election commission and delivered to the corresponding oblast (the city of the Republican status, the capital) election commission.
The devices for data recording on voting are kept within one year from the date of the termination of elections.