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Nina Khatiskatsi – CEC Incorrectly Interprets Election Code

October 27, 2013
 
Humanrights.ge 

Expert of election issues Nina Khatiskatsi, who observes presidential elections on behalf of Human Rights Center, states that presence of two representatives of one election subjects in several election precincts is wrong interpretation of the Article 42 of the Election Coda. It breaches the requirement of the Article 8 Part 15 of the same code, which states that each election subject can have one representative at the precinct.

Nina Khatiskatsi said that wrong interpretation of the Article 42 of the Election Code by the CEC is caused by the fact that CEC refers to the presidential elections as a parliamentary elections and does not consider that political party or election block is not election subject in the presidential elections but the presidential candidate of the political party or initiative group. So, it is not correct to allow political parties and election blocks to have additional representatives in the election commissions.

Nina Khatiskatsi underlines one more shortcoming observed during the ongoing presidential elections – annulment of the ballot papers, where all presidential candidates are crossed; in similar ballot papers voters demonstrate their protest to every candidate.

“According to the acting law, similar ballot papers will be annulled during counting process that will significantly damage the general statistics of the voters’ will. It is a step back because during previous elections voters were allowed to demonstrate their protest and there was a special column in the final protocol, where the number of votes vs everybody was also recorded,” Nina Khatiskatsi said.

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