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Georgian Election Tests Country's Young Democracy

People in the former Soviet republic of Georgia vote in presidential elections Saturday. President Mikhail Saakashvili is expected to win the contest.

The early elections were called after 70,000 people took to the streets in November 2007, protesting Saakashvili's rule. Those protests were met with a police crackdown.

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