Finally, it must be stressed that “any reform of electoral legislation to be applied during an election should occur early enough for it to be really applicable to the election.”In this perspective, the timing of the current reform so shortly before the next local elections is not ideal, inter alia as concerns the planned changes to the election administration bodies. That said, it seems that most of the current election commission members will remain in place, and the provisions of the initial draft amendments whereby partisan members of all election commissions were to be replaced upon enactment of the bill have been revised in order to limit these immediate changes to the level of the CEC. On the other hand, the increase in commission members at all levels will require an important number of new recruitments and reorganisation. In this connection, the above recommendation to reconsider the significant increase in commission members, at least in the case of DECs and PECs, gains even more importance. Finally, it is of high importance that the election administration at all levels make every effort to ensure a smooth and flawless election process, for the sake of the Georgian democracy as well as citizens’ and parties’ trust in the system.