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Article 65
 

Collection Rule of Voters Signatures for Establishing of a Campaign Group on Referendum.

65.1.    Signatures for creation of a referendum campaign group shall be collected and officialized in accordance with Article 57 of this Code. Signature sheets shall be prepared in conformity with Appendix 4 of this Code.

65.2.    If the initiators establishing a campaign group on referendum intend to conduct a pre-referendum campaign in all territory of Azerbaijan Republic, they shall have to collect a minimum of 40 thousand voters signatures about the agreement to membership in campaign group on referendum from the territory of at least 60 election constituencies. In this case the number of the potential members of a campaign group on referendum cannot be less than 100 persons from one election constituency.

65.3.    If the initiators establishing a campaign group on referendum intend to conduct a pre-referendum campaign in one part of the territory of Azerbaijan Republic, they shall have to collect a minimum of 100 voters signatures of the membership in the campaign group on referendum, in the territory of every single election constituency, which is provided to conduct pre-referendum campaign.

65.4.    According to his will, the voter shall have a right to sign only once to the membership in a campaign group on referendum.

65.5     After the collection of signatures, the signature sheet shall be signed by the authorized representative of initiators of a campaign group on referendum and a person who collected the signatures. Before signing the signature sheet, the signature collector shall write down his name, surname, patronymic, home address, serial and batch number and issue date of ID or a substitute document.