On May 27, 2013 the registration for the exam of election administration officer started

From July 1 of this year, Certification examinations shall be launched for election administration staff.

Under the auspices of Central Election Commission of Georgia, examinations shall be arranged by LEPL Center for Electoral Systems Development, Reforms and Trainings (Training Center).

Certification aims to verify the knowledge of election legislation and general skills of the citizen of Georgia, for further selecting of high-qualified election administration officers.

Certification of election administration officers shall be held in a new way:

I. Registration of examination candidates shall be carried out online, via internet, from May 27 to June 21, to 18:00 p.m.

II. Examination will be carried out via e-test method.

I. Online registration of examination candidates - http://registration.cec.gov.ge/

‹‹ online registration of examination candidates requires few minutes.

‹‹ following fields shall be field in e-application, at www.electionreforms.ge

• Surname, first name

• Personal number (according to ID card or passport of the citizen of Georgia)

• DOB

• Address (according to registration place; in case of IDPs – factual address)

• Sex

• Contact essentials – telephone, e-mail (optional)

‹‹ Examination candidate is free to choose suitable date and time of examination.

‹‹ After sending e-application, examination candidate automatically receives confirmation letter on e-mail (if available) (including registration number, examination date, time and venue).

‹‹ Citizens, having no access to internet, can apply directly to the examination secretary of Training Center from May 27 to June 21,, inclusive, at the following address: 13^th km of David Agmashenebeli Alley (10:00-18:00, excluding weekends).

‹‹ for registration purposes, citizen must present to the secretary ID card of citizen’s passport of Georgia.

II. Certification examination method:

‹‹ For registration purposes, citizen must present ID card of citizen’s passport of Georgia to the secretary.

‹‹ Tests of the certification examination (Available in Georgian) are public and they are placed on official web-pages of CEC and Training Center, www.cec.gov.ge ; www.electionreforms.ge

‹‹ Published examination tests are used during certification examination, without modifications (whereas, in math part of tests only numbers are changed).

‹‹ Candidate must have ID card or passport of Georgia, at the examination;

‹‹ Duration of examination is 1 hour.

‹‹ 30 examination tests are chosen for each candidate, including the following:

• 6 questions from the Constitution of Georgia; 

• 17 questions from Law of Georgia “Election Code of Georgia”;

• 5 questions from General Aptitude Test (math section) 

• 2 questions from General Aptitude Test (verbal section)

For providing publicity, representatives of accredited local nongovernmental and international organizations will be allowed to attend the examinations as observers.

For accreditation purposes, interested organizations must apply to the examination secretary of the Training Center, from May 27 to June 21, at the following address: 13^th km of David Agmashenebeli Alley, Tbilisi (10:00-18:00, excluding weekends)

Greater than 3 observers shall not be allowed in examination hall (one observer shall be allowed from the same organization, except the case when only one organization passed the accreditation procedure). Considering the number of accredited observers, in June 27-28, balloting may be held, for verifying consequence of allowing observers in examination hall (after balloting, accredited observers shall be notified via e-mail).

Contact essentials:

CEC - 251-00-51 (Hot Line)

Training Center - 261-21-11

Contact person: Zurab Luashvili - 599 95 83 83