Villages voted en masse, ballots were prewritten and the results were tallied in secret in Naypyidaw, the gaudy new capital.
International monitors say Saturday's presidential election in Nigeria appears to have gone largely without incident, as tens of millions of people cast their ballots.
Sponsored by the U. S. Embassy and the American Chamber of Commerce, the event encouraged all attending to cast mock ballots, and kiosks explained the quirks of America's voting system.
Voters cast their ballots mostly on the government's record.
During the reconciliation process, poll workers scan the paper ballots to produce reconstructed ballot images (REBIs).
The next federal election is due in 2013 but the coalition’s popularity, and thus its cohesiveness, will be tested in several regional ballots next year.
Each of the 30 teams is allotted 250, 000 paper ballots, which are distributed at arenas, where fans are strongly encouraged to check the boxes next to the names of the home team players.
Most voters filled in the ballots on their own laps. Some rushed away after handing their folded ballots to a representative who later cast a handful of ballots into the ballot box.
Some hold contests at each home game to award the individual fan who punches out the most ballots.
Go back to the reformed system briefly tried in the 1990s, he says, in which voters cast two ballots, one for prime minister and the other for the party of their choice.
Morocco would show Middle Eastern rulers that they can respond to popular pressure with ballots rather than bullets.
In Darfur, badly needed helicopters finally arrived at the UN peacekeeping mission, where peacekeepers helped distribute ballots for Sudan's first multi-party election in 24 years.
They know that if even vaguely free and fair ballots were to take place throughout Sudan, they would lose heavily.
The process for counting absentee ballots was streamlined.
Some voters have had to wait as long as 10 hours to cast their ballots, leaving some analysts to worry about the lines voters might face on Election Day.
The Supreme Court reinstated the general, and the electoral tribunal ordered the ballots to be confiscated.
What's happening in Da 'an reflects a rising trend of participation by China's rural voters, some 450 million of whom reportedly cast ballots in 2008.
Only ten voters cast their ballots, and the result showed a tie, with President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney each garnering 5 votes.
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