Besides, as of 15:00, in total, throughout the country, 175 complaints are submitted at Precinct Election Commissions and the majority of them refer to some procedural violations and request to impose disciplinary liability measures against commission members.
“One of the observer organizations spread information that 24,3% of precinct election commissions (PECs) were not ready for beginning the polling process by 08:00. We provide you with information on the polling process since morning and already at 08:30, we notified you that PECs were open at 08:00. Only 9 precincts were open 10-15 late throughout Georgia (1 precinct in Mtatsminda; 2 precincts in Krtsanisi; 3 precincts in Vake; 1 precinct in Dedoplitskaro; 1 precinct in Khobi; 1 precinct in Martvili), with which you may also agree, can in no way be 24.3% percent of 3664 precincts. An observer was expelled from the Zugdidi N90 precinct who “was detecting a series of violations”, According to the given organization. We verified the mentioned information and found out that several observers were obstructing the polling process, observers in question were taking photos of voters" IDs of which they were warned by the Commission’s Chair, who later was forced to expel them from the precinct”, - reads the statement of CEC.