Nino Dolidze: On the day of the elections, "Fair Elections" recorded a total of 490 incidents and violations, both inside the country and in the polling stations opened outside the borders of Georgia
On the day of the elections, "Fair Elections" recorded a total of 490 incidents and violations, both within the country and in the polling stations opened outside the borders of Georgia, - Director of "Fair Elections" Nino Dolidze said at the briefing.
According to her, out of the recorded incidents, 297 were violations detected inside the election precincts opened in Georgia, 167 - outside the election precincts, and 26 - in the election precincts opened abroad.
"The organization submitted a total of 294 complaints and 64 notes to the election administration at different levels. In particular, in precinct election commissions - 104 complaints (also, 64 notes were recorded in the record book). In district election commissions - 189 complaints (214 regarding facts). CEC - 1 complaint.
Complaints submitted by the organization according to the main categories: annulment of the summary minutes of the Precinct Election Commission and re-counting of voting results, restriction of observer rights, violation of vote secrecy, issue of issuing ballots, invalidation of voting results, invalidation of portable box results, violation of marking procedure.
Incident/violation detected in the polling station (323). namely, stuffing ballots (2); multiple voting/attempted voting (12); Illegal limitation/expulsion of observer's rights (30); Violation of the marking procedure (76); Violation of voice privacy (76); Violations related to portable ballot box (22); defects related to electronic technologies (17); other violations (62); Problems identified in areas created abroad (26).
Incident/violation detected on the outer perimeter of the polling station (167). In particular, registration of voters by coordinators (31% of 71 polling stations); facts of verbal and physical confrontation, as well as threats in election precincts (25 - 11% of election precincts); organized transportation of voters (42 - 19% of polling stations); Alleged bribery of voters (29 - 13% of polling stations).
According to the assessment of "Fair Elections", the set of fundamental violations revealed during the pre-election period of the 2024 parliamentary elections and on the day of the elections affected the manifestation of the free will of the voters and, therefore, the election results cannot be considered as an expression of the will of the voters of Georgia.
For the parliamentary elections of October 26, 2024, the observation mission of "Fair Elections" represented about 1,000 short-term observers inside the precinct, 231 observers on the outer perimeter of the precinct, 73 district election commission observers, 85 mobile teams, 23 lawyers and 32 operators covering 73 election stations. District. During the observation, the collection of quantitative and qualitative information was used from the election precincts identified by the principle of random sampling, which is representative for the whole country", Dolidze noted.
