The Central Election Commission (CEC) has dismissed the allegations made by Fair Elections, a non-governmental organization, that there are considerable gender-related discrepancies in the voter data of the October 26 elections. On the contrary, the CEC claims, gender-based data is not relevant to the final election outcome and was collected for purposes other than the elections.
As the CEC pointed out, minor discrepancies in 11 out of over 2 million registrations were the result of human error and cannot be used as evidence for election irregularities. They emphasized that gender-specific figures are not included in the final voter turnout statistics.
Fair Elections continues to argue that gaps in male/female voter activity data at 275 polling stations remain unspecified, with male and female turnout reported at 77% and 48%, respectively.
