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The Process of Verification of Voter Lists for the 2012

Parliamentary Elections

Conclusions and Recommendations


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About the Project

Project donors: Council of Europe and the Embassy of the Kingdom of theNetherlands

Project goal: facilitating the process of improving voter list through

monitoring activities of the VLVC, experience sharing and providing

recommendations

Project scale: the monitoring was carried out in 73 municipalities and self-

governing cities of Georgia

Monitors: the field work was carried out by 74 monitors of ISFED


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Project Activities

Project activities are as follows:

1. Monitoring of recruitment of VLVC interviewers

2. Monitoring of training of VLVC interviewers

3. Two stages of monitoring the door-to-door campaign:

- Direct monitoring of voter list verification

- Monitoring the process after the voter list verification

4. Voter list monitoring on the Election Day


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1. Monitoring Recruitment of the VLVC Interviewers

516

352

Did an interviewer of the VLVC fill out a jobapplication?*

59.44% 40.55%

Yes No

*Out of868respondents


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2. Monitoring of Interviewers Trainings

234

91

How was the training organized?*

670.69% 27.49% 1.81%

Good Satisfactorily Not Good

Not good: 3 cases in Samtredia, 1 in Bagdati, 1 in Kutaisi, 1 in Kharagauli

*Out of331 trainings


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2. Monitoring of Interviewers Trainings

43

Was the information provided to ethnic minoritiesin the language understandable for them?

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4

Yes Partially No

No: 4 cases took place in Marneuli


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3. Direct monitoring of the Door-to-Door Campaign

92

8

442

129

2.42%

0.85%

0.07%

4.10%

1.19%

Address does not exist

Address is incomplete

Apartment has been closed

No-one knows the person

Why an interview did not take place?*

4313

669

1780

1368

1542

175

40.018%

6.20%

16.51%

12.69%

14.30%

1.62%

Other

Apartment owner does not know such

Has moved to another city

Is abroad

Has moved to a different address in the

Deceased

*Out of

10 779registered persons


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7190

Was an interviewer making notes in the relevantfield of the form?*

831

5589.02% 10.28% 0.68%

Always Sometimes Never

*Out of8076 visits


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2108

Was an interviewer filling out an application form incase of necessity?*

10495.29% 4.70%

Yes No

*Out of2212, who are deceased, abroad or unknown


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574

Was an application written for a person omittedfrom the list?*

82

87.50% 12.50%

Yes No

*Out of656persons omitted from the list


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3. Monitoring the work of the VLVC interviewers after the

Door-to-Door Campaign

958

Did an interviewer visit the address?*

93690.63% 8.79% 0.56%

Yes No Respondent doesn't know

*Out of1057visits


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3. Monitoring the work of VLVC interviewers after the


947

Was an interviewer of the VLVC engaged in political

agitation?*

599.47% 0.52%

No Yes

Yes: out of5 3 cases took place in Gldani, 1 in Kutaisi, 1 in Rustavi

*Out of952 visits


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3. Monitoring the work of the VLVC interviewers after

the Door-to-Door Campaign

25

Was an application about person abroad filled in?*

3

60.97% 31.70% 7.31%

Application has been

written

Application has not been

written

Respondent doesn't

remember

* Out of41persons abroad


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3. Monitoring the work of the VLVC interviewers after

the Door-to-Door Campaign

13

Was an application about deceased person filled in?*

1 186.66% 6.66% 6.66%

Application has been written Application has not been

written

Respondent doesn't

remember

*Out of15 deceased persons


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3. Monitoring the work of VLVC interviewers after the


10 10

Information about unknown persons

100% 100%

Number of unknown persons Applications written


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Conclusions

Monitoring of the VLVC activities has allowed us to draw the following

conclusions:

The period of time allocated to inform public about open positions of aninterviewer was insufficient; however, the deadline for submission ofapplications allowed sufficient time for interested persons to submit their

applications

ome nterv ewers were re w t out un ergo ng t e proce uresestablished by the VLVC

Organization of trainings and the level of trainers preparedness was mostly

positively evaluated

During training of interviewers as well as the door-to-door campaign, therewas a problem of language barrier evident when it came to communicatingwith ethnic minorities


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Conclusions

During the field work there were a number of cases where interviewersviolated the VLVC methodology for verification of voter lists; however,

considering the scale of these violations they may not have had an essential

impact on the quality of verification

On the Election Day, voters registered on election precinct lists matchedvoters on the list elaborated by the VLVC, allowing us to conclude that voter

lists on election precincts matched lists verified and provided to the VLVC


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Recommendations

Based on the monitoring results, we have elaborated the following

recommendations:

Interviewers should have similar working experience

It is important to allocate more time for training interviewers

It is important that remuneration of interviewers commensurate with the job

done and responsibilities undertaken

Measures should be taken to tackle the issue of language barrier with ethnic

minorities, in order to prevent any problems in the work of interviewers andhinder verification of lists in a comprehensive manner


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Recommendations

We offer conducting a universal census of the population that will allow

future verification of voter lists and determination of number of voters in

a more precise manner. Although the VLVC has verified voter lists, public

still has certain questions about total number of voters, including

unidentified persons and persons abroad

A permanent agency equipped with relevant experience and necessaryresources s ou e respons e or orma on o vo er s s. u c

Registry Agency may be viewed as an alternative in view of the fact that

the agency is responsible for processing a large-scale database of the

population of Georgia and is experienced in working with voter lists.


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Thank you for your attention!

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