Consideration of applications/complaints about counting votes and summarising polling results

1. A DEC secretary shall, upon the receipt of an application/complaint referred to in Article 73 of this Law, register the application/complaint in the DEC registration book. The commission shall consider the application/complaint and make a decision within two days after its registration with the DEC. The DEC shall deliver a decision by issuing an ordinance that may be appealed only in court under this Law.

2. If the procedure for submission of information referred to in paragraph 2(a-d) of Article 72 of this Law is not met, the respective official who is in charge of receiving applications/complaints in an election commission shall identify the omission for the applicant/complainant and define a reasonable term for its rectification. The commission secretary shall make a respective note thereof in the commission registration book. The note shall be signed by the applicant/complainant and the respective official of the commission. Unless the omission is rectified within the period defined, the respective election commission shall apply the procedure referred to in the fifth paragraph of this article.

3. The applicant/complainant shall have the right to rectify any omission within the period established by an authorised official of the election commission by submitting a similar application/complaint about the violation where the grounds for the omission shall be eliminated and/or the applicant shall submit an application specifying the data of the determined omission.

4. If the omission is rectified, a respective note shall be made in the registration book of the election commission specifying the exact time and date of rectification, and it shall be signed by the person rectifying the omission and the respective official of the commission.

5. An application/complaint submitted in violation of the procedures defined in Articles 72 and 73 of this Law and paragraphs 3 and 4 of this article shall not be reviewed and the chairperson of a respective election commission shall issue a decree to dismiss the application/complaint without prejudice.

6. The summary protocol of the PEC polling results and the PEC polling results shall be appealed under the procedure established by Article 77(2) of this Law.

Organic Law of Georgia No 2093 of 7 March 2014 – website, 14.3.2014
Organic Law of Georgia No 1274 of 26 July 2017 – website, 29.7.2017
Organic Law of Georgia No 3269 of 21 July 2018 – website, 27.7.2018