The establishment of supplementary voter lists (Article 10) can be considered a definite progress towards improving the administration of elections. In the Georgian context, this item is of especial importance due to the large number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia and other regions. In the 1999 parliamentary elections, several observers reported that IDPs could occasionally cast more votes than they would have been allowed to[2], because the administration of voter lists did not function properly[3]. Under the new regulation, IDPs can be identified more easily by the election authorities, so ‘double voting’ of IDPs should not be possible any more.
