CEC: district election commissions elected 24,047 heads/members of precinct election commissions - re-competition was announced for 193 vacant positions
District election commissions elected 24,047 heads/members of precinct election commissions. Re-competition was announced for 193 vacant positions. CEC disseminates information about this.
As stated in the spread information, despite the fact that the election administration conducted the selection of heads/members of precinct election commissions in accordance with the law, following the principles of publicity and transparency, the interested parties still tried to discredit the process.
"The election administration made a statement even before the start of the precinct election commissions election process and called on the interested parties not to try to discredit the process and the elected persons, however, despite this, specific persons, based on the political agenda, tried to discredit the process and the election with groundless and manipulative statements, and later already Stigmatization of selected persons.
That is why, once again, we call on all objective monitoring organizations to evaluate election administrators of any level based on their activities and neutrality, and not on the basis of statements dictated by political agendas. On the other hand, the election administration will protect the right of each administrator to perform his duty in a peaceful environment and the elections on October 26 will be held in accordance with international standards.
Here we present detailed information about the selected persons:
A total of 24,425 competitive applications were received for 24,240 vacant positions, including 9,111 competitive applications for 9,090 vacant positions of head persons, 15,314 competitive applications for 15,150 vacant positions of commission members.
All persons elected to precinct election commissions have a relevant certificate. According to the changes made in the legislation in accordance with the recommendation of the OSCE/ODIR, it became mandatory for the members of the precinct election commissions elected by the district election commissions to possess a certificate. In order to provide maximum assistance to those wishing to obtain a certificate, the election administration has organized several certification exams throughout the country.
The majority of the elected persons have experience of working in the election direction and are also participants in CEC educational projects. In particular:
Among the elected persons, they have the experience of working as a member of the Precinct Election Commission, and since 2012, out of the last 8 general elections, 16,870 persons have participated in the work of the commission at least once, which is 70.15% of the total number.
Of the newly elected members of the Precinct Election Commission, 14,183 are participants of "election administrator courses", 1,111 are graduates of "election development schools", and 479 are graduates of "youth camps".
We remind you that 3,030 polling stations will be opened for the October 26 elections. Voters will be served by a total of 51,510 commission members, including 9,090 leaders and 15,150 members elected by election commissions on professional grounds, and the remaining 27,270 members will be appointed by 9 authorized political parties," the CEC statement said.
