Mr. Mugabe, after casting his ballot, appeared confident of victory in remarks to reporters.
In two cases, votes were recounted by hand to determine victors because the machine counts were so close and a few ballots appeared flawed.
The simple keyboard has the capability to call in, the ballot appears [in pages] on the TV screen, and you can vote 'yes' only for one candidate on that page".
But during the count, more than 9,000 extra ballots appeared, giving Mr Bob's-My-Uncle an impressive 15,448 votes out of some 24,000.Nationwide, Mr Mugabe's party, ZANU-PF, romped to victory in last week's parliamentary election, capturing 78 of the 120 seats that were contested.
The 42-year-old Ms. Cantwell, for instance, said that most of the ballots appeared to be coming from Seattle and surrounding King County, and a few other urban counties where she outperformed Mr. Gorton.
On Monday, WSOC and Popular Information both reported that many people listed as witnesses on accepted absentee ballots appear a striking number of times — one person, Woody Hester, witnessed 44.
Initial counts of those ballots appear to be favoring Mr. Begich.
Brown, who recently survived a ballot signature challenge, appeared at Tuesday afternoon press conference at the John A. Wilson Building but cut it short following tough questions from reporters.
In Michigan, local Republicans and Tea Party activists were immediately suspicious when a "Tea Party" ballot line appeared with candidates running for two competitive House seats and several state offices.
James Sterngold (NYT) THIS BIRD WON'T FLY -- The people of Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, voted in surprisingly strong numbers for a ballot measure that appears likely to kill the prospect of building what would have been one of the largest airports in the region.
