TBILISI. Oct 29 (Interfax) - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili is trying to discredit electronic electoral technologies, Georgia's Central Election Commission (CEC) said.
"The Georgian president is discrediting electronic electoral technologies. The president has been fanning mistrust of technologies in her public speeches and interviews given to various local and international media, with unfounded, unsubstantiated and false accusations, for several days now," the CEC said in a statement released on Tuesday.
The president is trying to discredit the electoral administration, which organized this election on the highest level, on an international level, the statement said. "Monitoring missions of the OSCE ODIHR and other international organizations confirm in their statements and evaluations that the election was held in a qualified and professional manner. However, the president is trying to present the situation differently," the CEC said.
Zourabichvili is convincing the public that the election was "totally falsified" and is making unfounded accusations, for example, that one and the same ID was allegedly used for voting several times, the statement said.
"In actual fact, the conclusion drawn by the U.S. company PRO V&V confirms that the electronic technologies used in the October 26 election make the doubling of voters on voting lists impossible and one voter is included in the list only once. Thus, it is impossible to vote several times using one and the same ID, to underdo double verification, and one and the same voter cannot be registered at several polling stations," the CEC said.
The CEC said technologies were introduced in the electoral process in partnership with the company Smartmatic, which has experience in modernization of elections in more than 30 countries. The company is now providing technological support in one of the largest constituencies of the United States, some provinces of Canada, in Belgium, Estonia, Argentina, Australia, Albania, Bulgaria, Armenia, and other countries.
The CEC said electoral technologies were working properly on October 26 and all international and local monitoring organizations, electoral subjects and media that monitored the process became convinced of that.
"Amid all this, the attempt to discredit electronic technologies is nothing else than denial of reality and an attempt to mislead the public for political interests," the statement said.