Revealing Numbers
How Georgia’s Election was Systematically Manipulated
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The parliamentary elections in Georgia were rigged and influenced by the government in an extremely efficient way. This was achieved through buying votes, intimidation, multiple voting, and identity fraud. A special feature was the systematic misuse of private data so that the authorities knew exactly which voters to target. There is also a large gap between urban and rural areas in the manipulation of the election. At the district level in particular, statistical analysis can be used to quantify with astonishing accuracy how many more votes Georgian Dream received and how many fewer votes the opposition received due to certain violations.
(Osteuropa 11-12/2024, pp. 15–24)