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In parts of Rivers State, election observers trying to monitor the tally found vote-counting centers shuttered and reported widespread theft of ballots and polling materials.
Earlier, however, European and Commonwealth observers criticised the handling of the election, which was marred by lengthy delays in the delivery of polling materials, outbreaks of violence and a government shutdown of social media, which is still in place.
In June, after the Justice Department threatened to sue the city and Passaic County over election issues, they agreed to print more Spanish language polling materials, but no agreement was reached on the council matter, said Christine DiBartolo, a Justice Department spokeswoman.
The delays are being blamed on late arrival of officials, the absence of polling materials in some constituencies, and some technical problems with a new biometric registration system.
In New York City three boroughs are covered under the Act, Bronx, New York and Brooklyn, and lawyers and activists have used Section 5 repeatedly to stop discriminatory redistricting plans, efforts to halt bilingual polling materials, and efforts to change the ways votes are counted.
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Lawyers for both sides are already examining disparities in election policies, nuances in court rulings and potential irregularities at polling places for material that may be used to challenge results in places where margins are paper thin.
And Fox News broadcast several segments about a mural of the president, complete with his campaign logo and the words "hope" and "change," that greeted voters at a Philadelphia school, a possible violation of a law against campaign materials at polling sites.
The dearth of effective mechanisms to ensure the accessibility of election materials, equipment, polling stations, and electoral procedures poses some questions as regards the institutional, economic, political, and social factors that continue to impede the provision of accessible election within the universal suffrage framework.
Under federal oversight, the city has submitted more than 2,000 proposed electoral changes for approval by the Justice Department, which have included moving polling places and translating election materials into Bengali, Chinese and Russian.
Those polling stations that didn't get materials and didn't open yet should wait for materials.
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