Turnout: More than 8% of voters appear at ballot box by 10am
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Almost 300,000 voters throughout the country had cast their vote in the Parliamentary Elections by 10am this morning.
A short time ago Central Election Commission (CEC) spokesperson Ana Mikeladze said voter turnout was 8.34 percent two hours after polling stations opened throughout the country.
This meant by 10am, 292,957 citizens had already voted.
Meanwhile Mikeladze said voting process was underway in a calm environment without any major problems.
A couple of minor complications had occurred at several polling stations but everything had been handled quickly and the voting process was again operating smoothly.
- Of the violations, procedural errors were registered at one polling station in western Zugdidi where CEC members refused to take part in a random selection process to accompany a mobile ballot box. While this issue was being sorted voters were forced to wait in front of the polling station before the problem was settled.
- In western Poti, voting was hampered at one polling station because the door of the room where elections papers were being kept was stuck and wouldn’t open. Emergency officers opened the door, after which voting began.
- At a polling station in the Black Sea coatal city of Batumi, members of opposition United National Movement party were forced to leave the polling station after all observers claimed s/he was hindering the voting process.
The CEC will hold four more briefings throughout today to provide information about voter turnout and the voting environment.
It's been four hours since polling stations opened and so far the environment is peaceful and orderly, says Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, a leading local non-governmental organisation.
Several opposition leaders have already voted in Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections. Free Democrats leader, one of UNM's leaders and a Republican Party leader have cast their votes this morning.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has cast his ballot in today's Parliamentary Elections and voted for Georgia’s "European future and fast economic development.”Kvirikashvili went on to say his choice promoted health and better education for the country’s youth.
All polling stations in Georgia are now open where people can go and cast their vote in the Parliamentary Elections.
Head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Catholics Patriarch Ilia II has cast his vote and has appealed to all Georgian citizens to also have their say on who they want to run the country.
For the first time in Georgia's history, an election station has opened in the Southern Hemisphere for today's Parliamentary Elections.
An election commission in the central Georgian town of Gori had a pleasant-busy morning by a mischievous owl at a local polling station.
By 12pm, almost 700,000 people (or 19.81 percent) had voted in Georgia's Parliamentary Elections, said Central Election Commission spokesperson Ana Mikeladze.
By 3pm, more than one million people had voted in Georgia's Parliamentary Elections, said the Central Election Commission. This was 34.8 percent of all voters in the country.
Polling stations across Georgia have closed and results being tallied show over 1.8 million people cast their votes in the October 8 Parliamentary Elections.