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Article 59
 

Keeping order at polling stations and its adjacent territory on polling day


1. The PEC chairperson shall be responsible for keeping order at the polling station on polling day.


2. Decisions made by the PEC chairperson for keeping order at a polling station shall be binding upon all members of the election commission, upon all persons authorised to be present at the polling station and upon voters.


3. No armed individual may enter a polling station.


4. If the commission operations are hindered and order is violated, a PEC may expel a troublemaker from the place where the PEC is located. The chairperson and members of the commission shall sign a respective act drawn up for the expulsion. The act shall specify the first and last names of the troublemaker, as well as the numbers of the electoral district and electoral precinct, and account of the violation and the exact time of its commitment.


5. A PEC shall decide to remove a representative of an electoral subject from the premises.


6. If social order, or the polling process or safe movement of electoral documents under this Law is threatened at a polling station or its adjacent territory, at the request of the PEC chairperson, police officers may be summoned to the polling station and its adjacent territory. Police officers shall leave the polling station and adjacent territory with the consent of the PEC chairperson as soon as the disturbance of social order is eliminated.


7. In exceptional cases, police officers may be present in an adjacent territory of a polling station but not in the polling station itself, without the request and consent of the Chairperson of a PEC, if this is absolutely necessary for preventing the violation of social order or for protecting thereof. As soon as such necessity is eliminated, police officers shall leave the adjacent territory of a polling place.


Organic Law of Georgia No 5593 of 24 June 2016 – website, 12.7.2016