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Article 38
 

Verification of the lists of supporters


1. The CEC shall verify the lists of supporters of a party and a candidate for President of Georgia, and the respective DEC shall verify the lists of supporters of other candidates.


2. The election commission shall verify the signatures in turn on the forms of the lists of supporters. If the number of signatures of supporters is less than the minimum amount required or if the number of signatures of supporters, taking into account the signatures invalidated as a result of verification, is less than the minimum amount required, the invalidated part of the list of supporters shall be returned to the respective electoral subject and shall be given two days to correct the discrepancy. The election commission shall, as defined above, verify once again the corrected part of the lists of supporters submitted by the electoral subject. If the number of signatures of supporters is still less than the minimum amount required, the election commission shall completely invalidate the list of supporters and shall, by ordinance of the commission chairperson, refuse to register the electoral subject.


3. The signature of a voter in the list of supporters shall be considered invalid if:


a) the first and last names are not specified or are incompletely specified;
b) the date of birth (day, month, year) is not specified or is incompletely specified;
c) the place of registration (settlement, street, building, and apartment number) is not specified or is incompletely specified;
d) the date of signature is not specified or does not meet the deadline defined by this Law for drawing up the list of supporters;
e) it is not signed or is signed by another person and this is confirmed in writing by the voter in whose stead the list was signed;
f) a voter listed as a supporter of a candidate nominated in an electoral district is registered in another electoral district;
g) a signatory, by an application submitted to the respective election commission, confirms that the list was signed by deception, intimidation, or under pressure, and the signature on the application was notarized;
h) the personal number of a citizen of Georgia is specified incompletely or inaccurately.


4. A signature shall be considered invalid if it is made on a form not endorsed by the person in charge of collecting signatures or if such a form does not include data or includes incomplete data referred to in Article 37(4) of this Law.


5. The deadline for verifying the list of supporters of a party shall be 10 days after its submission, while the deadline for verifying the list of supporters of a candidate shall be three days after its submission.


6. Representatives of electoral subjects may attend the process of verification of the list of supporters.


7. Only the CEC members, respective DECs members, and appropriate officers of the CEC, as well as the court, if appealed to court, may have access to the lists of supporters. The lists of supporters shall be destroyed within 10 days after the expiration of the time frame for bringing a lawsuit to the court about electoral registration.