Election administration plays one of the leading roles in organizing and conducting elections. Budget spent on the remuneration of commission members and employees is always an issue of interest for the society especially ahead of elections. In 2016 ahead of parliamentary elections ISFED issued Report on Monitoring of CEC Salary Expenditures covering 2011-2015. At that time ISFED elaborated a number of recommendations to improve the existing practices. In 2020 we again decided to prepare Report of Monitoring Remuneration of the Election Administration covering the period of 2016-2019 in order to provide citizens with the information about budget spent on EMB remuneration and also to see if previous problems were addressed. The monitoring was extended also to district election commissions. As identified there are still some problems that need to be addressed, for instance, percentage and frequency of increasing official salary should be specified, both for CEC members and employees; during the election period a supplementary pay should not be provided in addition to a double official salary; frequency of a supplementary pay should be determined; etc. 

The present document summarizes recommendations presented by ISFED and Transparency International – Georgia on the most important issues of the election reform and amendments introduced in the legislation.