“The main task for us was not to raise the issue of personal responsibility for anyone. Our task is to fully clarify the real reasons for the two frauds that have become the mainstay of the revolutionary scenario of the radical opposition,” the Executive Secretary of the Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, said.

Speaking about the ISFED Board’s briefing on what he calls the gross flaws in the parallel vote tabulation, Irakli Kobakhidze said: “Today we saw another acknowledgment of the fraud allowed in the PVT, unfortunately, an argument for the reasons for this fraud was weak”. 

You remember the scale of the opposition propaganda that followed several imbalanced protocols sent to the Central Election Commission by precinct election commissions, including those signed by members of the opposition. When an organization with a large budget fails to compile a single election protocol, we mean PVT data and publishes this protocol in a grossly unbalanced form, it is hard to believe a human factor is the cause of such a shortcoming. Everyone understands that the discrepancy of the CEC results with the PVT results has become the mainstay of the opposition’s allegations of election fraud,” Kobakhidze said.

ISFED released a statement on the parallel vote tabulation of Georgian parliamentary elections on December 11. The statement read that the internal audit results confirmed the accuracy of the PVT methodology. However, a technical fault was identified in the vote calculation formula. Namely, the formula counted the number of invalid ballots along with the votes received by the electoral subjects, ISFED informed. 

The adjusted ISFED PTV results coincided with the final results of the CEC.

ISFED spokesperson explained the parallel vote tabulation methodology at today’s briefing, noting that a Serbian PTV model was used, however, NDI experts involved in the process were not informed about the model, which also counts invalid ballots.

The Executive Director of ISFED, Elene Nizharadze, resigned yesterday.