But the long queues still outside polling stations as night fell suggested that, from townships to coastal villages, from impoverished mining communities to wealthy tree-lined suburbs, the overall turnout will be high.
In The Natural History of the Rich (Norton, $27), author Richard Conniff finds striking behavioral similarities between the wealthy and our tree-dwelling cousins.
By compensating developing nations for not cutting down these trees, wealthy nations could cover many billions of tons of their required reduction in carbon emissions by 2020.
Sherif Baha El Din of Nature Conservation Egypt, a wildlife NGO, told me that remote acacia groves had been hard to find and access in the past, but with GPS devices and fast SUVs being easily available to wealthy youth, "now every tree has someone waiting with a shotgun or an air pistol" during migration.
Wander in the shade of the trees and watch wealthy, elderly Mumbaikers power walk around, enjoy their yoga or meditate in the pavilions before finding one of the benches looking out to sea.
Wealthy neighborhoods can afford more trees, on "both public and private property".
Obversely, the tendency of good views and appropriate tree planting to attract wealthy purchasers creates a "good neighbourhood" effect that spuriously enhances the derived good-view premium (Price, 1995).
The family lived in Ikoyi, a wealthy quarter of expansive homes and tree-shaded restaurants along the Lagos Lagoon.
Mathis, who has lived near Kremmling, Colo .for 25 of his 47 years, pitched his plan to wealthy landowners who had plenty of trees to cut.
She supplies the tress for Washington Square and Times Square, memorial trees throughout the country, and full grown trees for the estates of the wealthy.
These included a speech beside the palm trees and swimming pool of wealthy Cuban American businessman Jose Mas Santos, and another poolside event to support Florida senator Bill Nelson.
