Liveblog: Parliamentary Elections In Georgia

Several white minibuses bringing people to voting station. And it's not organised by elect.committee #gvote twitter.com/franakviacorka…

— Franak Viachorka (@franakviacorka) October 1, 2012

Much has been made of the fact that Ivanishvili "declined to vote." It wasn't by choice. He's not a citizen and isn't allowed. #gvote

— Nicholas Clayton (@ClaytonNicholas) October 1, 2012

CEC: Voter turnout 53% (5pm), final statistics to be announced at 9pm, no major violations so far #gvote

— Avto Koridze (@AvtoKoridze) October 1, 2012

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....

Photos from polling stations around the country. (It's the woman on the scooter again)

@eidp observers report rising tensions outside the polling stations. Please be safe! #gvote #georgia

— EIDP (@eidp) October 1, 2012

UNM volunteers tell local media they're jotting down names to see how many of "our people" come vote. List includes passport #'s #gvote.

— Nicholas Clayton (@ClaytonNicholas) October 1, 2012

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

Rikard Jozwiak took this shot in Georgia's EU Embassy in Brussels. The ink seems to work there.

Nifty #Georgia elections map from @electionsportal detailing the voting incidents around the country electionsportal.ge/en/incidents/m… #gvote

— Democracy_Lab (@Democracy_Lab) October 1, 2012