The non-governmental organization "International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy” (ISFED) continues to manipulate the topic of voter gender activity. Such a statement released the Central Election Commission.

“Manipulation regarding this topic lasts even though the Election Administration (EA) has constantly explained the reason for individual cases of inconsistency in voter gender activity data and indicated that preliminary voter activity data cannot be an objective basis for drawing any conclusions regarding the election results.

It is significant that the “International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy”, on one hand, trusts the CEC’s primary data on voter turnout by gender, yet on the other hand, distrusts the CEC’s preliminary official election results recorded by the CEC - even though, according to ISFED’s own statement, its parallel vote count aligns with the CEC’s results. It should also be noted that ISFED attempts to justify the non-disclosure of these results with vague and unconvincing arguments.

It is well known to the organization that the counting of female and male voters participating in the elections by the members of the registrar commission is done not by counting the number of women and men who came to the elections, but by the data of registration of the voters who came and also by similar data of the mobile box. After that, the registrars count only the number of female voters, while the male voters are counted from the total number of voters who came. Therefore, an inaccuracy in the first data will automatically lead to an inaccuracy in the second data as well. However, it should be emphasized that gender-disaggregated activity counting is not a legal requirement. The mentioned data is processed only for non-election purposes and it has no relation with the official data of election results.

In the data that ISFED received from the CEC, there were several errors caused by human mistakes, which the EA, as a responsible institution, acknowledged. In particular, from 11 polling stations, the inaccuracies in the transmitted number of women participating in the elections caused an error in the registration of the gender of 150 voters in total, which is an insignificant indicator when registering more than 2 million voters. The attempt of ISFED to generalize the inaccuracies allowed in 11 precincts and alleged it as a “significant discrepancy”, even more so, to present it as a fact confirming election fraud, is not serious. While their own parallel count results in 2020 did not match the actual results, ISFED called it a “minor inaccuracy”.

It is significant that at first, ISFED assured the public that similar inaccuracies were recorded in 23 polling stations. However, once it was proven that this was not true, the organization, rather than acknowledging its error, shifted its narrative to claim that there was an unusual pattern of high voter turnout among men and attempted to create the corresponding speculative perceptions.

As a conclusion, we clarify once again that the exact turnout of voters is reflected in the summary protocols that are drawn up at the polling stations. Based on these very data, the final activity is determined, which is recorded in the summary protocol of the elections. Gender statistics are not included in the data of the summary protocol and are not related to the voting results.

The mentioned facts are known to all electoral stakeholders, including those whose interests, unfortunately, seem to be manipulating instead of providing the public with facts”.