The article outlines the main provisions of the Draft Election Code of Ukraine adopted
by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on November 7, 2017, in its first reading. The attention
was paid to the positive provisions of the project and revealed a number of shortcomings.
Possible ways of its improvement are offered, in particular, to simplify the structure of the
code, the form of presentation of individual norms, to improve the definition of the terms in
the project and the date of their definition at the beginning of the code, and so on.
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