The Election Code provides for a centralised, regularly updated national voters’ list. Under Articles 9 and 29, the CEC is responsible for preparing the general list of voters; for the computer processing and updating of the electronic database of the general voters’ list; and for its publication on the Internet. These are positive provisions which meet prior international recommendations. Yet, although these provisions have been in the law since 2003, the voters’ lists require significant further updating and appear to remain a key problem of elections in Georgia, a fortiori with reports of observers underlining that such weaknesses were again observed during the 2006 local elections.
