Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Nana Devdariani called on the members of the precinct commissions not to create the problems to the voters who were included in the primary version of the election list but are left out in hand-written ones.
“Representatives of the commissions can recheck the voters and if they are included on the primary lists, they can add their names to the current lists to enable a voter to cast a ballot,” Nana Devdariani said.
The primary voter lists were double-checked by the CEC as thousands of voters were not included on the lists. It was finally decided not to use the primary, computerized lists but to rely on hard copies – printout of the primary lists plus the voters added later through the correction process. It turns out now, that some of the voters included in primary lists are missing from the current ones.
The announcement seems to represent the last minute return to the supplementary voter lists – the phenomenon that was blamed by the independent observers and the election watchdogs for widespread election fraud in the past.