For May 13, 2018 By - Sakrebulo Elections in Zugdidi Municipality, election technologies will be piloted, namely, on the polling day, voters will vote using a special electronic voting and ballot counting device.

To provide qualified services to electorate, as well as to ensure voting using new technologies, on May 9 the CEC and the Training Center will hold First Stage trainings for members of PECs of N 67.27 Tsaishi Community Local Majoritarian Election District. Full composition of PECs will be trained using the following key training modules:

• Voters’ lists;
• Setting up a polling station, election documentation and supplies;
• Opening a polling station and procedures to be performed prior to voting;
• Performing the functions subject to distribution among PEC members via casting of lots (PEC member in charge of regulating the line of voters; PEC member in charge of registering voters; PEC member in charge of overseeing special frame-envelopes;
• PEC member in charge of carrying a mobile ballot box);
• PEC member in charge of overseeing ballot box and voting and vote counting special machine;
• Sealing ballot boxes in the presence of the first voter;
• The voting process at a polling station (new rule of completing ballot papers by voters and placing ballot paper via a special frame-envelope using voting and vote counting special machine);
• Voting process via a mobile ballot box;
• Policy to promote the engagement of voters with disabilities;
• Closing a polling station;
• Sorting and counting ballot papers;
• Sealing electoral documentation;
• Summarizing voting results;
• Polling day applications/complaints.

To support raising procedural knowledge of Election Administration members, the training will be delivered via a combined methodology, including, to ensure the development of practical skills, training participants will perform episodic staging of the voting day.

DEC members will also attend the trainings of PEC members.

Trainings schedule.