Georgian election result makes no statistical sense, say Western pollsters

Edison said it had found deviation from expected results was most pronounced in rural areas, which were likely to have had the “most significant vote manipulation at the polling location level”.

The main opposition groups have called for further protests next Monday, after an initial demonstration attracted tens of thousands of people outside parliament on the main Rustaveli Avenue earlier this week.

Georgian observers have highlighted numerous violations in voting, including vote-buying, ballot-stuffing and voters’ IDs being confiscated ahead of the election.

But the election commission has rejected allegations of bias and denied Zourabichvili’s allegations of so-called carousel voting in Georgia’s new electronic voting system, insisting it is impossible to vote more than once.

Public prosecutors summoned the president for questioning this week to prove her allegations of fraud, but she said that was their job.