Natia Ioseliani is the spokesperson of the Central Election Commission. She claims that the statement made by the “Fair Elections‘ organization regarding the statistics on the gender of the voters voting in the election is inaccurate, manipulative, and misleading.
Ioseliani, in her briefing today, called for Fair Elections to publish the full results of the parallel count, and to stop trying to create false perceptions. After that, speculations about voter turnout, statistics on gender, and the general election results would be over.
“Due the high level of public interest, we respond once again to the incorrect, misleading and manipulative statement of Fair Elections about the gender statistics of voters participating in the election. The CEC’s response to the information that was spread yesterday by the organization was based on real facts and legal norms, which excluded the opinion the difference in the levels of activity between male and female on the election day deviated significantly from the normal distribution. Nino Dolidze issued another misleading and incorrect statement as if CEC’s statement had confirmed her opinions. The preliminary data on the voter turnout sent by polling stations at 20:00 is what determines the actual number of voters participating in the voting. The summary minutes of the voting result of the Precinct Election Commission contain the final data about the voters participating in elections.
The CEC informed the public that the gender statistics were not official data. These were included in the result summary protocols. The registrars do not count the data for electoral purposes but for gender statistics. This may differ slightly from the actual gender activity which is only conducted in a few voting stations. There are 11 polling places where the precinct electoral commissions sent the wrong number of women voting on election day. This led to an error of 150 voters. On our website, you can find detailed information. We would also like to remind the public of the fact that Fair Elections has stated that the results from the parallel counting it carried out on the elections held on October 26 are in line with the official results of the CEC’s preliminary results. In order to avoid creating false perceptions, we urge Fair Elections to publish the full results of the parallel count, and end the speculations about voter turnout, statistics on gender, and general election results.
According to Fair Elections’ statement, a mistake was found in the gender statistics published for the parliamentary elections on October 26 by the CEC. The organization stated that there are some election precincts in which the turnout for men is higher than male voters registered on the electoral lists. According to their explanation, based on the analysis of information requested from Central Election Commission, it was found that the number of male and female voter turnouts in certain areas differed from the normal distribution, and contained excluded or unnatural features. The members of the organization claim that the errors are a means to manipulate and urge the prosecutor‘s office to be interested in the information they obtained.
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