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Albert Massaquoi, head of external relations at the NEC, said: "We are currently in a situation where we don't have the resources to provide voting material and voter education for the visually impaired.
"We have experienced some minor problems such as malfunctioning card readers and voting material that didn't arrive on time," INEC Commissioner Femi Akimbe told VICE News.
The mission also said the vote counting process was "slow and lacking transparency," and also slammed the Electoral Commission's late delivery of voting material to opposition strongholds, which made it harder for potential voters to cast their ballots.
A little rain before election day in Congo's vast, forested interior could make it impossible to distribute ballots; an almost complete lack of roads means that most voting material must be delivered by helicopters that cannot land if it is too muddy.
Most polling stations are not easily accessible by road in rural areas and, as a result, the Zambian Air Force is on full alert to assist in getting voting material to them.
In Munyono, a middle class neighborhood, police and voters confronted each other when rumors that ballot papers had already been ticked off by the ruling party started spreading shortly after the voting material finally arrived at 2pm.
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Gunmen opened fire on a truck carrying voting materials in Lubumbashi, and later attacked voting centres, the interior minister, Bikanga Kazadi, told the Associated Press.
In Matagalpa, however, protesters burned voting materials at one polling station, and 17 people were injured in a fight between supporters of Mr. Ortega and Mr. Gadea on Saturday night.
Under a consent decree filed yesterday in federal court, the county will translate voting materials into Spanish, fire poll workers who have mistreated Spanish-speaking or Hispanic voters and provide more training for poll officials.
A small liaison office based in the Pentagon, the FVAP provides voting materials to the departments of defence and state for soldiers and civilians abroad, and preaches overseas election law to thousands of local election officials back home.
The presence of a growing group of young, tech-savvy Nigerians who plan to monitor the polls themselves armed with Blackberries and Twitter feeds—has added to a sense that change is in the air.Mr Jega blamed the setback on an unnamed supplier who failed to deliver voting materials on time.
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