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In Georgia, voters chose between the parties of President Mikheil Saakashvili and his chief rival, Bidzina Ivanishvili.
In Georgia, voters chose between the parties of President Mikheil Saakashvili and his chief rival, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Liveblog: Parliamentary Elections In Georgia

Parliamentary polls in Georgia on October 1 were seen as a key test of competing visions of the country's political course. Follow the elections and their aftermath with RFE/RL.

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By the way, our timestamps are GMT. We're looking into getting that fixed. It's actually about 7 p.m. in Georgia now and we're still here. So don't be thinking we're not still covering....
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Photos from polling stations around the country. (It's the woman on the scooter again)
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Via Rikard Jozwiak, RFE/RL Brussels corr:

"We expect about a thousand people (voters) but for this moment there were 200 people. There were no problems, everything is ok at the moment." -- Teona Gabodze, head of the election committee in Brussels

"We haven't had any serious problems so far apart from the only problem that arises now is that people had two days prior to elections, they were given two specific days announced on TV and all sorts of media that they go and register in the consulate and be on the list of the elections committee. Because unless you are on the list, you cannot vote and there is nothing we can do to let you in and give you the right to vote. Therefore they are kind of upset, many of them, that when they come they are not in the list. They haven't had the chance to register in these two days but it is nothing we as the election commission can do about it." -- Nana Barbakadze, member of the election committee in Brussels
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Rikard Jozwiak took this shot in Georgia's EU Embassy in Brussels. The ink seems to work there.


Voters in Georgia's EU Embassy in Brussels cast their votes in parliamentary elections (Oct 1, 2012)
Voters in Georgia's EU Embassy in Brussels cast their votes in parliamentary elections (Oct 1, 2012)
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