Observer Jake Hoffman: You have a smooth process here; maybe you could export some of your practices to United States

12:24, 04.10.2025

“You have a smooth process here. I said yesterday, I think, that maybe you could export some of your practices to some of our states in the United States,” said Jake Hoffman, an observer for the Centre for Fundamental Rights, speaking to journalists in Khashuri.

He added that, based on his own assessment, all is going well in the districts he has visited.

“We’ve been to two different cities and, maybe, five or six polling stations. Everything looks good to me from observing; very peaceful outside, no protests, no stopping anybody from voting or anything like that, you have a smooth process here. I said yesterday, I think that maybe you could export some of your practices to some of our states in the United States, like California. I see that you check IDs here, you fingerprint, you get a receipt with a picture on it, and you have a very secure way of making sure people are supposed to be voting. In America, not so much in some of the states.

It’s good to have the combination of the electronic system and the paper system to back it up. It makes it easier to count. You’ll have a number much faster at the end of the day, versus trying to count paper ballots. That’s why it’s good to have both.

Overall, I think that you are doing a very good job with the election. I think that everything has been very smooth. I think it seems very professional, and I think that it seems very secure from everything that I’ve observed so far at the polling stations we’ve been to,” Jake Hoffman stated.

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