Article 10. Procedure and norm of formation of the polling stations

Polling stations are formed for a period of five years by territorial election commissions on the representation of district and city khokimiyats. In necessary cases, polling stations may be transformed, the boundaries of existing polling stations may be changed or abolished upon the proposal of district and city khokimiyats.

Polling stations are formed taking into account the boundaries of districts, cities, districts within cities in order to create maximum convenience for voters.

Polling stations can be formed at diplomatic and other missions of the Republic of Uzbekistan in foreign countries, in military units, sanatoriums, rest homes, hospitals and other inpatient medical institutions, in places where citizens are located in remote and hard-to-reach areas, as well as in places of detention and imprisonment during the preparation and conduct of elections. These polling stations are included in the electoral districts at their location. The boundaries of polling stations should not cross the boundaries of other electoral districts.

In military units, polling stations are formed on the proposal of the commanders of units or military formations, in places of detention and imprisonment, polling stations are formed on the proposal of the heads of these institutions and bodies by territorial election commissions.

To hold elections of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and deputies of the Legislative Chamber in a single electoral district on the basis of the party list, the Central Election Commission, on the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, may establish polling stations at diplomatic and other missions of the Republic of Uzbekistan in foreign countries. The issue of attaching a polling station formed outside the Republic of Uzbekistan to the corresponding territory shall be decided by the Central Election Commission.

Polling stations shall be formed at least sixty days before the election, usually with a number of at least twenty voters and no more than three thousand voters. In military units, at diplomatic and other missions of the Republic of Uzbekistan in foreign countries, as well as in places where citizens are located in remote and hard-to-reach areas, in places of detention and imprisonment, polling stations shall be formed within the same period, and in exceptional cases — no later than seven days before the elections.