Public Defender Responds to Annulment of Election Results of Polling Station Opened at Ksani Penitentiary Establishment No 15
Tbilisi. During the ad hoc visit of the Special Preventive Group of the Public Defender's Office to the polling station opened at Ksani Establishment No 15 on October 31, 2020, the aim of which was to check both the general situation and the free realization of prisoners’ right to vote, several convicts obstructed the fulfillment of duties by representatives of the Public Defender and verbally abused them.
Representatives of the prison administration, including the director of the establishment, witnessed the incident, but did not respond properly. After the summary protocols of the polling station protocols were published, non-governmental organizations filed a complaint against the majoritarian protocol of the polling station opened at Ksani Establishment No 15, as 641 prisoners participated in the majoritarian elections, but allegedly not all of them were constituents of the Mtskheta election district.
Source: ombudsman.ge
