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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?
12
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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3. Direct monitoring of the Door-to-Door Campaign
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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3. Direct monitoring of the Door-to-Door Campaign
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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3. Direct monitoring of the Door-to-Door Campaign
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
Door-to-Door Campaign
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
Door-to-Door Campaign
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!