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Georgia: Voter Lists

Saturday, December 29th, 2007 @ 05:47 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Georgia
Topics:: Elections, Politics

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TOL Georgia says that in just four years the electorate has apparently grown by 2 million people even despite negative population growth. The blog says that in advance of the January presidential election, serious concerns should be raised about the voters list.

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