BISHKEK, 2021, November 28. Observers of the Common Cause PF, as of 9 PM, reported 46 violations during the elections of deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh. This is the preliminary data on violations, monitoring in the regions continues.
As of 8 PM, the voter turnout was 35,5% (with an error of +/- 3.05% with an accuracy of 0.99%). The turnout data of the Common Cause PF by single-electoral constituency coincides with the official data of the Central Election Commission within the margin of error.
From 8 AM to 7:30 PM, the secrecy of vote was violated during the voting process in 2% of the polling stations where the foundation was observing.
68% of PECs complied with COVID-19 recommendations during the voting process during the day, 30% partially, and 2% did not comply at all.
At 6.3% of polling stations, more than 10 voters did not find themselves in the voter lists for a single-district during the voting process during the day.
59.3% of voters followed COVID-19 guidelines during the day's voting process.
19% of polling stations had long queues during the voting process during the day.
There were no technical failures at 58.3% of the stations, and at 30% of the stations there were SBB failures.
In 1.7% of the polling stations, voters were allowed to vote without identification during the voting process throughout the day.
At 3.7% of polling stations, there were cases of mass transportation of the voters.
95.3% of PECs closed at 8 PM. 2.3% of polling stations had queues OUTSIDE the polling station at 8 PM at the time of PEC closing.
The Public Foundation "Common Cause" deployed 600 short-term observers to observe the elections of deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh. They monitor the opening, voting, and closing and vote-count procedures at 300 randomly selected polling stations, the course of voting throughout the country.
The Foundation uses statistically based observation, an advanced election monitoring methodology that allows conclusions to be drawn that are representative of the entire country about specific electoral processes on election day.
Another 46 mobile teams have been deployed to monitor the situation around the polling stations. As of 9 PM, mobile teams managed to travel around 358 PECs in all regions. In general, the situation around the precincts, according to their data, is calm, but tense situations are noted in the Naryn, Kara-Suu, Moscow and Kochkor constituencies due to queues and mass transportation of the voters.
There are large queues of voters near 24 PECs due to compliance with the COVID-19 recommendations, at 13 PECs there are queues due to a delay in the operation of the SBB, and at 12 PECs, observers noticed the presence of unknown persons of strong constitution, crowds of people near the polling stations are noted at 7 PECs.
At 7 PECs, mobile teams noticed campaigners who were conducting illegal campaigning on election day. In the city of Bishkek, at PEC No. 1223, an illegal infringement of the rights of observers was recorded. In the Moscow and Uzgen constituencies, mobile teams noticed vote-buying, but they failed to fix the violation or find out in favor of which candidate this was done.
The top 5 violations are the following:
Among the regions where the violations were reported most often from, Osh region was among the leaders.
The breakdown by the type of violation is as follows:
10 reports that there was no recount of ballots:
Bishkek city - 1:
Issyk-Kul region - 2:
Osh region - 7:
7 reports that there was no PEC meeting (including no drawing of lots:
Bishkek city - 2:
Osh region - 4:
Chui region - 1
2 reports on unlawful infringement of the rights of observers:
6 reports of violation of the secrecy of voting:
Chui region - 2
Issyk-Kul region - 2:
Osh region - 2:
5 reports about campaigning on election day:
3 reports about SBB failure:
1 report stating that the SBB is not sealed:
1 report on deviation from the voter list:
2 reports on the presence of unauthorized persons at the PEC:
1 technical error report when calibrating lot list:
1 report about voting instead of another voter:
2 reports that the PEC chairman did not show the received ballots to those present for visual inspection:
1 report that the ballot box was opened due to an overcrowded SBB, and ballots were poured out:
4 reports about the mass transportation of the voters:
Monitoring of elections is carried out within the framework of the project "Non-partisan observation of the elections of deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic, scheduled for November 28, 2021", implemented by the public foundation "Common Cause".