Tbilisi. ISFED Responds to Allegations of the CEC. "The CEC stated that it examined 109 summary protocols from 66 polling stations and found several causes of the high number of invalid ballots, including voters checking more than one candidate or crossing out all candidates in majority of the cases at 63 polling stations. ...Regrettably, we find it hard to understand how the election administration identified these causes.  ...On July 2, during joint discussions of the issue, the CEC alleged that our recommendation to have the results recounted was an attempt to "purposefully mislead the population” and accused us of being incompetent. We believe that instead of criticizing monitoring organizations, the CEC should have recounted results from problematic polling stations under its own initiative, which would have dispelled valid suspicious that various election stakeholders and monitoring organizations have, based on high share of invalid ballots and improperly drawn summary protocols".

Source: isfed.ge