The observers of the Georgian Young Lawyers Association have already prepared 5 complaints about the violations observed in the polling stations. The situation is the following in Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi where the GYLA monitors the elections. Their observers encountered some problems in several polling stations where they could not enter the building on time; there were some problems about mobile phones too. More precisely, the observers were allowed into the polling station # 46 of the election district # 7, PS # 35 of the election district # 4, PS 17 of the ED # 10 and PS # 39 of the ED # 4 late. “The commission members in the PS # 90 of the ED 3 and in the PS 123 of the ED # 6 requested us to leave our mobile phones outside the building. The problems were eradicated after the members of the inter-institutional working groups, working in the polling stations, interfered in the incident,” stated the representatives of the GYLA. According to them, violations were observed regarding the arrangement of the PS and procedures which were to be carried out before the polling procedure starts. More precisely, in many polling stations, the number of the ballot papers is less than the number of the voters registered in the PS. Similar facts were observed in PS # 49 of the ED # 8, PS # 47 of the ED # 9, PS # 2 of the ED # 1, PS # 105 of the ED # 59, PS # 48 of the ED # 9, PS # 4 of the ED # 1, PS # 30 of the ED # 3, PS # 24 and # 25 of the ED # 4, PS # 47 of the ED # 9, PS # 90 of the ED # 3, PS # 44 of the ED # 9, PS # 49 of the ED # 9, PS # 80 of the ED # 58 and in the PS # 80 of the ED # 79. The seals of the packet of the ballot papers were broken in the PS # 42 of the ED # 1; the number of the ballot papers was not announced publicly in the PS # 11 of the ED # 3; the number of the registration seals was less than it is estimated by the law in the PS # 77 of the ED # 59; the marking apparatus went wrong in the PS # 96, 10, 53, 41, 124, 51, 52 and 101 of the ED # 59. “Although video-cameras are installed in the polling stations in Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi, the booths are not covered and it might breach the principle of the anonymity. Although the Election Code does not oblige the commission members to cover the booth, the GYLA calls upon the election administration to consider the practice of the 2008 elections and cover the elections booths everywhere,” said the head of the GYLA Tamar Khidasheli.
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