HAVE THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS?

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[06:52 pm] 10 January, 2008

Dieter Boden, Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission
during the presidential elections in Georgia announced today that
many fraud cases were registered during the elections.

In an interview with "Frankfurter Rundshau" newspaper, the Ambassador
stated that it was becoming more and more obvious that "rude and
deliberate riggings took place during the counting of ballots".

According to him, the next day of election the OSCE Observation
Mission positively assessed the election process, since "the obvious
cases of violation were not revealed then".

Boden called the opposition to present all facts on the rigging to
the Central Electoral Commission, since the body was competent to
revise the results of the elections.