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Giving the stakes in Georgia’s upcoming parliamentary elections, interest among Georgians living abroad in voting is running high. But the Georgian Dream government is not making it easy for expats to politically participate. In 2020, an estimated 850,000 Georgians were living outside of Georgia, according to UN figures, but only about 12,000 Georgians living abroad ended up voting in that year’s parliamentary elections. Over the past four years, the number of expat Georgians is estimated to have exceeded 1 million. According to the latest Central Election Commission data in mid-October, over …

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