Arrangement of a polling station

1. The state authorities, municipal bodies, legal entities under public law (except for membership-based and religious associations) and organisations established with more than 50% participation interest of the state and municipal bodies shall provide the election commissions, temporarily and free of charge, with the premises and inventory required for preparing for and holding the elections. Furthermore, the above bodies shall pay the utility costs of the premises provided.

1¹. If an appropriate building is available, the building for an electoral precinct shall be accessible for every voter, and where such building is not available, the building allocated for the electoral precinct shall, where possible, be adapted by the allocating body for the polling day to ensure accessibility for every voter.

2. A PEC may not be established and a polling place may not be allocated in the same premises where the following are located:

a) a party;

b) state authorities and municipality bodies, except when there are no other appropriate premises within the territory of an electoral precinct for the conduct of polling according to this Law; a DEC shall make an appropriate decision; c) a division of the police or of the State Security Service of Georgia.

2¹. A party and the election headquarters of a party/an initiative group of voters may not be located in a building where an election commission is located.

3. (Deleted – 7.3.2014, No 2093).

4. At a polling station:

a) polling booths shall be set up so as to ensure that voters can complete ballot papers in secret. At least one booth with one pen shall be provided for every 500 voters;

b) places shall be allocated for registration of voters and special envelopes;

c) a transparent ballot box shall be installed in a visible place;

d) public versions of lists of voters, party lists, lists of candidates, procedures for filling out a ballot paper established by the CEC, a well as an extract from this Law defining the cases when a ballot paper is deemed invalid, and demonstration protocol(s) of polling results shall be posted in a visible place.

5. If any electoral subject entered into a ballot paper no longer runs in elections, a notice thereof shall be posted in a visible place both at the polling place and in the voting booth (room).

6. In order to ensure that polling is secret, photo and video filming in a polling booth shall be prohibited.

Organic Law of Georgia No 2093 of 7 March 2014 – website, 14.3.2014

Organic Law of Georgia No 3973 of 8 July 2015 – website, 15.7.2015

Organic Law of Georgia No 5438 of 22 June 2016 – website, 12.7.2016

Organic Law of Georgia No 1274 of 26 July 2017 – website, 29.7.2017

Organic Law of Georgia No 3266 of 21 July 2018 – website, 13.8.2018

Organic Law of Georgia No 6854 of 15 July 2020 – website, 28.7.2020