Georgia's Central Election Commission said it would recount ballots in about 14% of polling stations after opposition parties declared the weekend's parliamentary elections rigged.
The pro-Western opposition parties refused to recognise the results of Saturday's vote, which they said were rigged in favour of the ruling Georgian Dream party. Tens of thousands joined a protest rally in Tbilisi.
"The district election commissions (DECs) will carry out a recount of ballots from five polling stations selected at random in each constituency," the commission said in a statement.
According to the nearly complete results announced by the commission, the ruling Georgian Dream party won 53.9 percent, compared with 37.7 percent for the opposition coalition.
President Salome Zourabishvili declared the election results "illegitimate," claiming that a "Russian special operation" had interfered in the election - a claim that was rejected by the Kremlin.
The opposition parties said they would not enter the new "illegitimate" parliament and demanded "new" elections conducted by an "international election administration".
The United States and the European Union have condemned the electoral 'irregularities'.
A group of leading election observers in Georgia said it had found evidence of sophisticated and large-scale fraud and demanded the annulment of at least 15% of the votes cast.
Data analyst Levan Kvirkvelia said that "(the voting data) provides solid evidence to support the ballot stuffing/recount argument".
"This manipulation happened exclusively in rural areas and we can say that the ruling party committed electoral fraud," he added.
Contrary to EU concerns over the vote, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban - the current holder of the bloc's rotating presidency and the Kremlin's closest EU collaborator - arrived in Tbilisi for a two-day visit.
In May, Georgia was rocked by huge demonstrations against a "foreign influence" law that critics say mirrors Russian legislation used to silence Kremlin critics.
Following the protests, the United States imposed sanctions on Georgian officials and Brussels halted Tbilisi's EU accession process.
For months, the ruling Georgian Dream party has been accused by the opposition of steering Tbilisi away from its goal of joining the EU and back into Russia's orbit. | BGNES
