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PAGE A8 BALLOTING AND BEATINGS Voters go to the polls on Saturday in Zimbabwe, with some already certain that regardless of balloting the deck has been stacked for President Robert Mugabe, who has held power for 28 years.

He also believed in proper trade union procedures, which meant balloting the membership.

He said he would be balloting the GMB's 640,000 members on whether they believed Corbyn was still the right person to lead the party.

And Unison, the biggest public-sector union, is balloting the 500,000 health-care workers it represents on whether to reject their pay deal and call a strike as well.The NUT complains that teaching has become unattractive compared with other graduate jobs.

Their union, Equity, announced it was balloting the choristers on industrial action, up to and including strikes, after the company said it wanted to make four redundancies and negotiate a pay cut of least 25% in a battle to remodel the business and cut costs.

But in Tuesday's balloting, the most noticeable trait was the gender gap.

The practical situation creates tension with the supposedly inclusive purpose of provisional balloting -- the harder you try to extend the franchise, the more difficult the post-election task.

Ballot by ballot, the three board members worked through envelopes of disputed ballots, holding the ballots up to the light.

Officials will start counting the paper ballots the following morning.

As you slide down the ballot, the races get cheaper.

Over the next nine ballots, the vote counts changed little.