The District Election Commission immediately convened a meeting and the data of Marneuli #69 precinct was declared invalid - the process in the precinct was stopped, CEC Press Spokesperson Natia Ioseliani told journalists.

According to her, the District Election Commission of Marneuli went to the place and studied the fact.

"The District Election Commission of Marneuli went to the place and studied the fact. The process was stopped at the site. The District Election Commission immediately convened a meeting and the data of the mentioned precinct [Marneuli precinct #69] was declared invalid.

We have information from social networks and have seen the video, the said person was wearing a representative's certificate at the polling station, however, we can determine more details about which subject he was a representative of and we will provide you with the information later. In the area where the process is stopped, the process will not continue anymore", said Natia Yoselian.

For information, the executive director of "Transparency International Georgia", Eka Gigauri, publishes a video on the social network, where it can be seen that there is a violation in the #69 area of ​​Marneuli.

In particular, the video shows a person throwing several ballots into the ballot box.

In addition, according to Nino Lomjaria, the founder of "Georgia's European Orbit", the person who was taking the photo of the ballots was physically assaulted.

"At the 69th precinct of Marneuli, our observer was physically assaulted when he was taking the aforementioned shot of stuffing ballots," Lomjaria wrote.

In connection with the mentioned fact, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has started an investigation under Article 164-3 Prima of the Criminal Code (Election Fraud), which involves intentional falsification of election-related documents: election lists, minutes, ballots, registration journals and control sheets, and is punishable by up to two years of imprisonment.