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30 May, 2010

To track what is going on during election day, Georgia’s leading monitoring organizations, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) and Transparency International (TI) have created a joint portal, VoteGeorgia.ge.…

Testing Mobile Innovation in our Surveys

30 May, 2010

In running an election-day survey (not an exit poll, which we are not so enthused about), we have decided to attempt something new: we are now aggregating the information via SMS. This gives us the information in real time, and…

Freedom House Report | Democracy in the Caucasus

5 December, 2008

In June Freedom House released its 2008 annual Nations in Transit Report covering January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007. The Nations in Transit Report covers the democratic performance of the former Soviet Union, the former Soviet satellite states and the former Yugoslavia.

Georgia post-Election Phone Survey | Quick Review

12 June, 2008

Yet another survey has been sent around as a PDF in Georgia. The survey attempted to measure the postelection mood in Tbilisi. According to the information provided in the PDF, 503 respondents have been selected randomly and interviewed by telephone.…

Georgian Election | ODIHR Preliminary Report and its Percentages

22 May, 2008

So the preliminary report on yesterday’s Parliamentary Elections which ODIHR has just released again notes that the count had problems.

Pre-Election Polls | what would be needed

18 December, 2007

With the election in Georgia approaching fast, polls are beginning to appear every week. Unfortunately, many of these polls are taken at face value. The reality is that at this point there is not a single pre-election poll that has…

Exit Polls | a good idea?

3 December, 2007

With upcoming elections in Georgia, the attention is back on a theme that otherwise often gets neglected: what does the Georgian electorate want?

Caucasus Election Programs in the 1990s

2 November, 2006

Nani Chkhaidze compared the 1990s election programs of parties that won the elections in the South Caucasus.