The youth of Haiti had filled the polling booths, both as workers and voters, he said, adding that the majority "approached the process with seriousness and goodwill to support the democratic process.?" Still, problems cropped up throughout the day.
Even here at the Huffington Post, you can read the daily laments: "How Obama Lost His Magic," and Andy Ostroy's "Dude," Where's My President!?" The airwaves are filled with pessimistic polling, all dire Democratic data, even though many campaign experts and candidates doing their own tracking see less dramatic trends.
That ultimately resulted in the launch of politics-focused sub-site Politix, where users can share political articles, fill out polls, and comment on the news without being (in Tolles' words) "that guy on Facebook" who's always annoying his friends with political commentary.
Studies link the country's unofficial segregation to the radicalization of young Dutch Muslims; meanwhile, white Dutch people fill out polls about their fears.
According to Gerard Le Chevallier, who heads the UN election team in Haiti, many of the tally sheets were incorrectly filled out by poll workers.As a result, the electoral authority invalidated almost 150,000 votes, many from the capital's slums.
There were, though, large omissions and ambiguities that will need to be filled in and clarified as polling day nears.
All seats for metropolitan Tehran are filled – although there will be polling in three of its satellite cities – and most of the run-offs are in small towns, scattered around 18 of Iran's 31 provinces.
In Baghdad and other cities, soldiers filled the streets near polling stations, as did scores of armored vehicles.
Meanwhile, a slow process of verification has been under way — the initial transmitted figures are being compared to digital scans of the paper forms, which were filled in at each polling station, to see if they are the same.
A Moscow user filmed an election official at polling station #2501 filling out ballots as he sat at his desk.
