TI Georgia: election commissions, courts have not upheld any significant complaints
TI Georgia, which monitored the October 2 municipal elections, notes that the district election commissions and courts upheld just four complaints and one lawsuit. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Transparency International Georgia, which filed 42 complaints and seven lawsuits on and after the October 2 municipal elections, reports that neither district election commissions nor courts have upheld any significant complaints.
The organisation, which monitored the elections with the help of 300 observers, notes that the district election commissions and courts upheld just four complaints and one lawsuit seeking disciplinary actions against some of the election administration representatives.
TI Georgia has tweeted:
TI Georgia filed 42 complaints to the election commissions, 12 of which were related to the imbalances in summary protocols. In these precincts, the organization asked for the invalidation of the protocols and the recount of the results. #GVote21https://t.co/TP60NRNNHF
— Transparency Int'l GE (@Transparency_GE) October 8, 2021
On the other hand, complaints requesting a recount of the ballots due to the imbalance of the summary protocols have not been upheld. The district election commissions recounted only seven polling stations out of the requested 12.
As a result of the recount, the total number of votes changed as follows:
- Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia: one vote was subtracted
- United National Movement: one vote was added
- Gakharia - for Georgia: 10 votes were added
- Girchi: 24 votes were subtracted
- Georgian Development Party: one vote was added
- The invalid ballots were increased by 39
- The number of participant voters was increased by 30
Furthermore, TI Georgia adds that the district election commission in Marneuli, the district court and the court of appeals did not uphold their request to annul the results of the two polling stations in Marneuli, where ‘serious violations, including multiple voting by some persons’ have been detected.
The district election commission in Zugdidi recounted ‘only invalid ballots in four precincts of the 11th majoritarian constituency, which resulted in a change of the winning candidate,’ - states the organization.
However, neither Zugdidi District Court, nor the the Court of Appeals sustained Tl Georgia's lawsuit against the Zugdidi’s district election commission.
The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has recounted votes in 812 of 3,664 district election commissions following the October 2 municipal elections because of complaints and according to recent legal changes which oblige the CEC to recount a certain number of votes to recheck their validity.
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