Singing Election Commision member and other memos of Georgia’s 2016 election runoff day

Today Georgian citizens voted in the second round of the 2016 Parliamentary Elections; 929,265 voters submitted their choice at the ballot by the time voting stations closed at 8pm local time.

The figure represented a 37.5 percent turnout, said Georgia's Central Election Commission (CEC) as it announced the closing of polling stations earlier this evening.

The day saw election observers and voting station visitors capture moments from polling process on lens, and you can see them below.

On Facebook one Georgian user published a video of a singing election station commission member. This song, from an old famous movie became, soon spread online and has since gone viral among Georgian social media users:

The International Republican Institute (IRI) was one of the international organisations monitoring the Georgian election. Its president Mark Green shared some of his photographs of the October 30 voting on social networks:

Seniors vote in R of Georgia bc they understand how precious liberty is. Learn more @iriglobal #Gvote 2016 #iriglobal

A photo posted by Ambassador Mark Green (@ambmarkgreen) on Oct 16, 2016 at 1:34am PDT

IRI observer Andrea Keerbs was also active onlijne today; she offered her take on the election runoff on Instagram and Twitter:

A soldier casts his ballot in #georgia runoff elections @iriglobal observing #gvote

A photo posted by Andrea Keerbs (@andreakeerbs) on Oct 29, 2016 at 11:51pm PDT

Keerbs photographed a special cabin for voters with disabilities at one of the voting stations open for the runoff:

Disabled voters cabin #gvote@IRIglobalpic.twitter.com/rI0vL1TGYp

— Andrea Keerbs (@AndreaKeerbs) 30 October 2016

Keerbs' camera also captured the moment ballot box was opened following the closing of the polling station after 8pm this evening:

Opening the mobile ballot box #gvote@IRIglobal observers at PECs thru out #Georgiapic.twitter.com/z33jYTM5Dt

— Andrea Keerbs (@AndreaKeerbs) 30 October 2016

This was the moment the ballot box was emptied following the conclusion the runoff voting on November 30:

And we have ballots :) @IRIglobal#gvotepic.twitter.com/uTWst200x8

— Andrea Keerbs (@AndreaKeerbs) 30 October 2016

Voters who cast their choice in the runoff election included elderly in eastern Georgia's Lagodekhi Municipality:

Elderly women casting their ballots in Matsimi village, Lagodekhi municipality. #gvote@IRIglobalpic.twitter.com/9ZVhTU8ocH

— Matteo Bezzi (@matbezzi) 30 October 2016