INSTRUCTION on the
Elections of the Councils of the Workers, Peasants and Red Army Men
Deputies and of the Congresses of Soviets
Chapter III
Electoral Commissions
12. For the Soviet elections the following
electoral commissions shall be set up:
a) Central Electoral Commission;
b) The electoral commissions of the Abkhaz SSR,
Autonomous SSR of Adjara and the Autonomous Oblast of
South Ossetia;
c) District electoral commissions;
d) City electoral commissions;
e) Village electoral commissions.
13. The Central Electoral Commission shall
consist of 23 members of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of
Georgia, which will organize and hold the elections in the whole of the
Republic.
14. The electoral commissions of the Abkhaz
SSR, Autonomous SSR of Adjara and the Autonomous
Oblast of South Ossetia shall consist of members the
presidiums of the central executive committees accordingly. These commissions shall include: chairman,
two representatives of relevant central executive committees, one representative
from the trade unions, one representative from the Union of Young Leninians (Komsomol), one
representative form the working women’s local committee, one representative
from the local city council, one representative of the national minority, one
representative from the Red Army and Navy, one worker from the industrial
enterprise, one peasant, one from the Peasants’ Mutual Aid Association and from
other public organizations (economic entities, “Defence
-Aviachemistry” etc.).
The members of the aforementioned electoral
commissions shall be approved by the presidium of the Central Executive
Committee of the relevant republics or oblast, and the chairmen shall be
appointed by the Presidium of the central executive committee of
16. The city electoral commissions, upon the
decree of the relevant council, shall be set up in Poti,
Gori, Stalinisi, Borjomi, Chiatura and Samtredia.
19. The members of
20. The members of the city electoral
commissions of Gori, Stalinisi,
Borjomi, Chiatura and Samtredia shall be approved by the respective city councils
and the chairmen shall be appointed by the relevant district executive
committee.
21. Upon decision of the city councils, the
auxiliary electoral commissions may be set up at the big factories, plants and
other enterprises of the cities of
89. The delegates to the Soviet Congress of
Georgia shall be the representatives of the Soviet Congress of Abkhaz SSR, the
Autonomous SSR of Adjara, Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia and the districts – one delegate from each 10 000
of residents from the local councils where the delegates are elected on the
basis of number of population, and one delegate from each 2000 of residents
where the delegates are elected on the basis of number of voters…
90. The Soviets of the Abkhaz SSR, the
Autonomous SSR of Adjara, the Autonomous Oblast of
South Ossetia… simultaneously to the elections of
delegates to the Soviet Congress of the Georgian SSR, shall elect the delegates
to the Soviet Congress of the Trans-Caucasus: from the Abkhaz SSR, Autonomous
SSR of Adjara, the Autonomous oblast of South Ossetia… one delegate from each 15 000 of from the local
councils where the delegates are elected on the basis of number of population,
and one delegate from each 3000 of residents where the delegates are elected on
the basis of number of voters…
(…)
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of
Georgia M. Tskhakaia
Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of
Georgia S. Todria
(Collection of the laws and Decrees of the
Workers and Peasants Government of the Georgian SSR, N 22, 1930, p. 661-682)