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Special lists of voters

1. Special lists of voters shall include:

a) Electoral Administration officers who are unable to vote in elections on the polling day according to their place of registration because of their
activities in election commissions: the respective DEC shall enter Electoral Administration officers in the list of pre-defined electoral precincts not later
than the fifth day before the polling day;

b) voters who undergo treatment in a hospital or in any other inpatient facility and who cannot be discharged from hospital on polling day because of
their health problems: the head of the relevant medical institution shall draw up a list of those individuals and shall submit it to the respective DEC not
later than the sixth day before the polling day;

c) voters serving a sentence in prison on the polling day. The head of an appropriate penal institution shall draw up a list of these individuals and shall
submit it to the respective DEC not later than the sixth day before the polling day;

[c) voters serving a sentence in prison on the polling day. The head of an appropriate penitentiary institution shall draw up a list of these individuals and
shall submit it to the respective DEC not later than the sixth day before the polling day; (Shall become effective as from 1 July 2015)]

d) conscripts and contract servicemen of military (paramilitary) forces and units of the Ministry for Defence of Georgia and the Ministry for Internal
Affairs of Georgia, who due to their terms of service are required to stay at an address different from their place of registration and located in another
election district. The commander of the appropriate military (paramilitary) unit shall draw up a list of those individuals and submit it to the respective
DEC:

d.a) not later than 1 July of the next general election year;

d.b) in the case of extraordinary elections, within five days after elections are called;

d.c) not later than the sixth day before the polling day, taking into account the results of conscription.

e) voters who are staying abroad and who are registered with a consular office of Georgia on the polling day, also voters who are not registered with a
consular office of Georgia but have gone through electoral registration in a PEC set up abroad or in a consular office not later than the 21st day before
Election Day: the head of the relevant consular office shall draw up a list of those individuals and shall submit it to the CEC not later than the 20th day
before the polling day. During the period of parliamentary and presidential elections, from the day of announcing an election until not later than the 21
st day before Election Day, voters shall be exempted from a consular fee charged for registration with a consular office;

f) individuals defined in the seventh paragraph of this article.

2. The head of the relevant institution shall be responsible for the accuracy of data entered in the special list of voters that shall be endorsed by his/her
signature.

3. A DEC shall, by a decree, draw up and approve special lists of individuals defined in the first paragraph of this article, also based on its own data, not
later than the third day before Election Day, and shall immediately submit them to the respective PEC.

4. If voters are entered in a special list of voters, a respective note shall be made in the unified list of voters of an electoral precinct and shall be endorsed
by signatures of the PEC chairperson and secretary.

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5. Voters entered in a special list of voters shall vote in:

a) both majoritarian and proportional elections, provided that a voter changes his/her whereabouts within the same electoral district or the same local
electoral district in the case of local self-government elections (except for voters defined in paragraph 1(d) of this article);

b) parliamentary elections of Georgia held through the proportional electoral system, as well as presidential elections and referenda of Georgia, provided
that a voter casts his/her vote in another electoral district.

6. During the elections for Sakrebulo, or during the elections of a Mayor of a self-governing city (including Tbilisi) or a Gamgebeli of a self-governing
community:

a) military servicemen of the Ministry for Defence of Georgia referred to in paragraph (1)(d) of this article, who on the polling day are deployed:

a.a) at a given location, permanently, for one year or more, on election day, shall participate in the Sakrebulo elections held under both majoritarian and
proportional systems and in Mayoral/Gamgebeli elections as well;

a.b) at the permanent location for less than one year on election day, shall participate in Sakrebulo elections held under the proportional system,
however, in the Mayoral/Gamgebeli elections and in Sakrebulo elections held under the majoritarian system the servicemen shall participate only if
their location is within the borders of the electoral district/local majoritarian electoral district, respectively, in which they are registered according to
their place of residence;

b) military servicemen of the Ministry for Internal Affairs of Georgia referred to in paragraph (1)(d) of this article, who on polling day are deployed at
the relevant location shall participate in Sakrebulo elections held under the proportional system, however, in the Mayoral/Gamgebeli elections and in
the Sakrebulo elections held under the majoritarian system, the servicemen shall participate only if their location is within the borders of the election
district/local majoritarian election district, respectively, in which they are registered according to the place of residence.

7. To participate in elections for the Parliament of Georgia held under the proportional/majoritarian system and in elections for the President of
Georgia, also in referenda, voters defined in paragraph 1(d) of this article entered into a special list of voters shall vote according to the location of the
military unit. If a voter wishes to vote according to his/her place of registration, he/she shall, not later than 16 days before Election Day, apply to the
respective PEC to be entered into the unified list of voters according to the place of registration.

71. The special lists of voters shall contain the same data of the voters as are included in the unified list of voters. This shall not apply to voters specified
in paragraph (1)(a - c) of this article, whose data are entered into the special list of voters without photos, and also to the voters specified in paragraph
(1)(d.c) of this article, whose data may be entered in the special list of voters without photos.

8. If a voter is entered into a mobile ballot box list, the special list of voters shall specify ‘mobile box’, the reason for entering the voter into the list and
shall be endorsed by signatures of the PEC chairperson and secretary.

Organic Law of Georgia No 2093 of 7 March 2014 – website, 14.3.2014

Organic Law of Georgia No 2289 of 17 April 2014 – website, 17.4.2014

Organic Law of Georgia No 3562 of 1 May 2015 – website, 18.5.2015