Voting in Georgia completed
The voting at the presidential election and the plebiscite in Georgia ended at 08:00 p.m. on January 5, a REGNUM correspondent informs. All polling stations are closed already. Now the territorial election commissions are starting to count the ballots.
As Central Election Commission chair Levan Tarkhnishvili announced earlier, first election outcomes are to be announced within 24 h starting from the moment of closing down the polling stations. The final outcome of the election is expected to be announced within next four days. By now, data on the turnout as of 05:00 p.m. is made public: 46.44% is an average in Georgia, in particularly, 42.55% in Tbilisi. Preliminary information on the attendance is expected to be announced by the CEC within next few hours. It is worth mentioning, at 08:00 p.m., the ban for publication of exit-polls data expired and NGOs are expected to publish their results of parallel ballot counting and exit polls. International observers are expected to make public their first assessments tomorrow, on January 6. According to the CEC, total amount of voters in the Single Voter Register is 3,352,448 people.
19:18 01/05/2008
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