Most Common Obstacles in the Right to Vote or Run for Office for Minorities  Linguistic, religious or ethnic requirements  Literacy or education thresholds  Property or residency requirements  Onerous registration procedures  ‘Political understanding’ or ‘Loyalty’ Requirements Language requirements remain perhaps the most prevalent and pernicious method to exclude disadvantage minorities from effective or political participation. Following amendments in 2003 to the Election law of Georgia, minority members not fluent in Georgian may be legally excluded from being elected to Parliament, or sitting on district electoral commissions. This has resulted in a recent decline in the participation of members of the Armenian and other minorities in political affairs the country at the national and other levels. For example, though representing nearly 6% of the entire population of the country, the percentage of