The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy said today that the Central Election Commission corrected most of the precinct summary protocols of the October 31 elections on the ballot day.

The Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) previously detected misbalances in 8% of the summary protocols.

“1.3% of polling stations missed the explanatory notes, suspicious corrections were made in 0.6% of precincts, 1.8% of summary protocols were corrected with faults.

The 0.7% of summary protocols were corrected based on adjustment protocols. 25.8% of the polling stations lacked cast ballots in the proportional summary protocols.

The summary protocol is a main legal factor that measures the legitimacy of the elections. The legislation strictly defines its compiling rule. Amended protocols were widely practiced during the October 31 elections and were mainly issued without formal or legal grounds”, - said ISFED representative at today’s press-conference.

The NGO admitted to a mistake in its data of the parallel vote count in early December 2020, while the data had been used by opposition parties for several weeks “as evidence that the ‘elections were fabricated”.