 All major national television broadcasters plan to conduct their own exit polls and have commissioned seven local research groups.In late December, Patarkatsishvili, who had pledged his financial support to the November rallies, became embroiled in a major controversy.The authorities accused him of trying to bribe an election official to claim voting fraud and released a series of audio and video recordings of the two separate meetings of the high-ranking Georgian Interior Ministry official Erekle Kodua with Patarkatsishvili and the head of his pre-election campaign Valeri Gelbakhiani.