Georgia's Central Election Commission rejects President Zourabichvili’s accusations of election fraud

Georgia's Central Election Commission on Tuesday rejected claims of the country’s President Salome Zourabichvili on Saturday’s parliamentary elections having been subject of fraud, claiming she was “inciting mistrust in the public toward [voting] technologies” by using“groundless, non-argumentative and false accusations” in interviews she had given to domestic and international media outlets and in public speeches.

Zourabichvili on Monday told CNN  the ruling Georgian Dream party had “used IDs taken from citizens seven times, 10 times, 17 times” during the voting. 

In its response, the CEC said  the President was “trying to discredit the election administration, which has organised the most important elections at the highest level, at the international level”.

The fact that the elections were administered in a qualified and professional manner has been confirmed by the observation missions of OSCE/ODIHR and other international organisations in their statements and assessments. However, the President is trying to present the situation differently”, the body emphasised.

The Commission on Sunday said the American auditing company Pro V&V had delivered the results of the first two phases of its compliance audit about the electronic voting technology used in the  elections  and found the devices had “functioned reliably”. 

Thus, it was impossible to duplicate a voter in the voter list and a voter was only included once in the list, making it impossible to vote multiple times with one identification”, it said

The body added “considering all the facts and still attempting to discredit the technology” was “nothing more than a denial of reality and an attempt to mislead the public for political gain".