From April 12, 2023, II stage trainings for the members of the Precinct Election Commissions (PEC) starts, which is dedicated to the training of PECs’ full composition.

Within the profile training program prepared by the Training Centre, the participants will get aquatinted to the practical aspects of the services to be provided to the voters during the polling process. The following main issues belonging to the competence of the PEC members will be focused:

• organizational powers of the PEC chairman in the period from the opening of the polling station to the start of voting;
• the functions to be distributed among the PEC members on polling day and the technique of their performance;
• voting process at the polling station and with a mobile ballot box;
• closure of the polling station and organizational powers of PEC chairman in the direction of preparations for the vote counting procedure;
• functions to be distributed among the PEC members for the vote counting process and techniques of their performance;

Based on the practical training, the PECs’ members will carry out episodic stagings of the polling process. For election commissions, where voting will be conducted using electronic technologies, the training program provides modeling of procedures via using voter verification machines and special electronic vote counting machines.

Trainers trained by the Training Centre will provide II stage trainings during April 12-21. The schedule is available at the link (available in Georgian). In case of any changes, the information will be reflected immediately.

I stage training for the PECs’ members was conducted on April 11, 2023; 444 head officials of 164 PECs participated in it. Detailed statistic is available at the link.