The main scheme of large-scale election fraud has been unraveled | Georgia

https://www.wevote.ge/en/post/the-main-scheme-of-large-scale-election-fraud-has-been-unraveled

by GRed-saintevil

9 comments

  1. Summary:

    The My Vote EU Monitoring Mission had a special app where they uploaded lots of data about the election process. Analyzing this data showed that the same types of election violations happened across multiple districts, revealing a clear pattern of election manipulation.

    Step 1: A few weeks before election day, officials began seizing or buying ID cards from opposition supporters in many regions. These voters were offered rewards for handing over their IDs to local government or police instead of being forced to vote for the ruling party. Besides opposition supporters, they also targeted the IDs of voters who don’t usually participate in elections. Many of these non-participating voters discovered on election day that they had supposedly “already voted.”

    Step 2: Leading up to election day, laws were changed to make sure that specific people took on the registrar role at voting stations. Registrars were placed in a way that made it hard for observers to see if the voter’s ID photo actually matched the person voting, blocking any attempts at verification.

    Step 3: On election day, they used these confiscated IDs in what’s known as a “carousel” system. One person would use different IDs to vote at multiple precincts. Observers reported several instances of this but were often blocked from moving around and couldn’t access verification machines to check. In some cases, they were even removed from the area. When caught, individuals using the “carousel” would use an ID with a piece of paper containing someone else’s ID number, which registrars knowingly entered into the machine, giving them another person’s ballot.

    Outcome: This meant that opposition voters who thought they hadn’t voted actually ended up “voting” for the ruling party. This explains the uncorrected imbalances between ballots and final results, the high voter turnout in certain regions, and why opposition groups, like the National Movement, ended up with around 150,000 fewer votes. The ruling party, in turn, had an unexplained surplus of 150,000 votes.

  2. The opposition demands CEC to publish the list of people who have voted on each electoral district.

  3. In Moldova, just over 50% of people voted in favor of the EU, while in Georgia, surveys indicate support at around 71% to 80%. The issue is that Georgia’s government has shifted rapidly from being somewhat democratic to increasingly authoritarian, adopting a pro-Russian, anti-Western stance in the last six months. Despite this, the Georgian public remains largely supportive of integration with the West. The government’s true stance has been evident since the onset of the war in Ukraine, as it has leaned towards Russia without explicitly backing Ukraine.

  5. This does not surprise me at all. After all, we are talking about the russia’s man. We know how much value this people give to fair elections. Also, we have video evidence of even more blatant violations.

    But… now what? This comes form an organisation that is openly pro-EU so the government will have it easy in just dismissing this as a complaint from the losers… heck, I even expect that he would call this people as “undemocratic” because they won’t respect the results of the elections …

    The question is… are Georgian people ready to riot? And if yes, is there anyone willing to support them?

  7. Norwegian here. I can’t do much, but commenting for visibility and upvoted every comment here for more visibility.

    This must reach r/all

  8. I hope all the ~~Russian trolls~~ commenters who were so adamant people are just upset because the pro-EU option lost read this.

  9. Oooooh, THAT Georgia!

    I thought this was about the US Georgia vote manipulation case.

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