EMBNominations:
13 members selected by Legislature, President, Political Parties
EMBTenure:
5 years
Who Runs Election:
Election Management Body
Nameof Elect Enforcement Body:
Supreme Court
Candidacy & Campaign Rules
Restrictto Candidacy:
According to the Constitution of Georgia, any Georgian citizen who is 35 years old and has lived in Georgia for at least five years may be elected president of Georgia. Moreover, candidates for president must have lived in Georgia for the last three years before the elections (Article 70 (2), Constitution of Georgia). To be eligible, a candidate may not hold dual citizenship. If a candidate meets the above criteria, that individual must collect at least 25,923 signatures (0.75 percent of the total number of voters) and submit this list of supporter signatures to the Central Election Commission prior to the deadline.
Debate Average:
1
Debate Format:
2018: Presidential candidates Salome Zurabishvili, David Bakradze and Grigol Vashadze have participated in a live debate on Georgian Public Broadcaster, three days befire the election.
Districting Flexibility:
Election districts, their boundaries, titles and numbers shall be determined by the Central Election Commission.
Polling Station
Average Voterby Polling Station:
954
Normal Opening Time Poll Station:
08:00
Normal Closing Time Poll Station:
2000
Polling Station Numbers:
3703
Listof Polling Station Buildings:
School, Education Centre, College, Masonic Lodge Hall, Salvation Army School, Community Centre
Accessibility Requirement:
Party to UNCRPD
Box Feeding System:
Voter
Vote Receipt:
No receipt
Tellersor Party Employees:
The staff of the CEC and the SEC (except for persons employed under labour contracts) shall be public servants and the Law of Georgia on Public Service shall apply to them. (Shall become effective as from 1 January 2017)]
Count Locallyor Centrally:
locally
Manualor Automatic Count:
manual
Nature Counting Personnel:
PEC chairperson shall select at least 3 counting officers.
Ballot Paper
Ballot Type:
Paper
Max Numberof Votesper Ballot:
2
Ballot Paper Type Photo Upload:
YES
Orderof Candidatesor Parties:
random
Remote Voting
Remote Voting List:
mobile polling stations
Mobile Polling Stations:
Yes
Special Needs
Provision First Time Voters:
(CIDEM)
Provision Illiterate Voters:
If a voter is unable to independently mark the ballot paper, she/he can take assistance from an authorized person.
Provision Linguistic Ethnic Minorites:
a multilingual voter information hotline operated in the run- up to recent local elections and election officials in minority areas were trained in preferred languages
Provision Blind Voters:
Tactile Ballot
Provision Deaf Voters:
If a voter is unable to independently mark the ballot paper, she/he can take assistance from an authorized person.
Provision Motor Handicap Voters:
If a voter is unable to independently mark the ballot paper, she/he can take assistance from an authorized person.
Over Representation Vuln Group:
parties can adopt voluntary quotas for ethnic minorities in those regional lists in local elections where minorities are significant portion of the population
Targeted Initiatives
History Major Changes:
The first presidential elections were held in 1991.
Transparency Initiative:
Observers shall select from their members not more than 2 supervisors by mutual agreement