საინფორმაციო სააგენტო ინტერპრესნიუსი

Recently, there has been a tendency to spread incorrect, manipulative information and misinformation by some parties involved in the elections, the actors of which seem to be aiming to mislead people who are less familiar with election issues and procedures, - with this statement, the CEC responds to the accusations of possible election fraud by monitoring organizations.

As stated in the published statement, in the post-election period, all accusations were rejected by the election administration with indisputable facts and indisputable evidence.

"Today, in social networks and media, based on the organization "Fair Elections", information was spread, as if the difference between the activity levels of male and female voters in a significant part of the election precincts deviates from the normal distribution and contains practically excluded characteristics. Which was then presented as "unmistakable evidence of election fraud".

In the post-election period, all so-called allegations were refuted by the election administration with indisputable facts and indisputable evidence. In this case too, we would like to inform the public of the following:

Counting the number of voters participating in the voting in terms of gender is not an obligation established by the Election Code of Georgia. The mentioned data are not counted by the enumerators according to the rules established by the election legislation and are not included in the data of the summary minutes of the voting results;

Voter gender statistics allow researchers, sociologists and other interested parties to study voter turnout from a gender perspective;

Although, even now and in all previous elections, such data may contain certain inaccuracies, given the methodology and practices of their processing, it is in no way related to, and can not be related to, the results of the voting, and therefore can not have any influence on it, which is well known to any party involved.

It should be noted that when processing this type of statistical data, it is necessary to take into account the category of voters who can not participate in the elections on the day of voting according to their place of registration. These are: election administration officials, inpatient voters, imprisoned voters, military personnel, whose terms of service require them to be at an address different from the place of registration.

Importantly, to our knowledge, such inaccuracies may exist only in the case of a few precincts and may concern only a small number of voters. The generalization of these cases can only be explained by the fact that we are dealing with a lack of electoral knowledge or a deliberate action to damage the electoral process.

Instead of publishing the results of the miscalculated parallel count in 2020, the organization "Fair Elections" published the results of the parallel count in 2024, thus unequivocally confirming the correctness of the results of the October 26 election, giving the impression that until today, they are sowing false perceptions in the public and thereby They try to justify their action or inaction.

We would also like to respond to the information spread on social networks regarding the analysis of the results of some electoral districts and explain to the public the inaccuracies and mistakes made by the author of this analysis.

According to the author, for example:

In the 54th precinct of Saburtalo district, there are inaccuracies between the printout of the preliminary voting results and the hand-counted summary protocol. In fact, she did not take into account the amendment protocol, which was uploaded on the CEC website, which she "did not notice" knowingly or unknowingly. Also, the data is incorrectly summarized and the number of invalid ballots is not taken into account;

In the 23rd precinct of Saburtalo District, there is a case of incorrect information in the total number of voters. While the precinct documentation is accompanied by an explanation showing that one voter came to the precinct with a laminated ID card, the registrar ran it, but found that the document had already expired and therefore did not issue a ballot. With this in mind, all data is accurate;

Inaccuracies seem to have been revealed in the summary reports in the 7th district of Saburtalo district. In fact, the author has not considered the protocol of correction, if taken into account, the data is absolutely correct.

Based on all of the above, we would like to remind all interested parties that manipulatively appealing only to gender statistical data and its processing methods, as well as reviewing preliminary or final summary reports, without accompanying documentation, clearly do not constitute a legal basis for discussing the validity of the voting results, nor a clear indicator of the assessment of specific facts ", the statement said.