ZANU-PF would have to stuff ballot boxes, a tactic it has been wary of, so far.
The students did much of the hard work of bringing out voters and watching over ballot boxes.
His victory over one-time favourite Sean Gallagher was evident within an hour of the ballot boxes being opened.
In both Algiers and several provincial towns, there were more officials than voters milling about the ballot boxes.
This morning, one Arab television channel reported the loss of a few ballot boxes - well, the loss or theft.
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But the electoral command centre, where all results were being totted up, has been dismantled and ballot boxes taken away.
On the scheduled date, Bolivians returned once again to the ballot boxes.
The students called out the vote and watched over the ballot boxes.
Ballot boxes were taken to a central hall in Naxxar, where the sorting of votes was due to start late on Sunday morning, it said.
Due to the closeness of the vote and amid claims that there were about 3, 000 irregularities on Election Day, the CNE agreed to recount 12, 000 ballot boxes.
Other ballot boxes contained hundreds of votes for certain candidates, but none were folded, "proving they were not cast through a ballot box slot, " the commission said.
But the state electoral council threw out the preliminary result, after finding so many inconsistencies that it decided it would have to recount four-fifths of the ballot boxes.
More than 50% of the polling stations were audited after they closed, double-checking their machine-printed tally reports by comparing them with the printed votes placed in the ballot boxes.
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And on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said it had conducted a recount of some ballot boxes in the presence of another defeated candidate's representatives -- and found no discrepancies.
Al-Shuraifi, the electoral official, confirmed that ballot boxes were destroyed in the province, but he blamed the act on angry voters who could not find their names on voting lists.
We had the collapsing table, which sent ballot papers skimming in every direction, and the non-waterproof ballot boxes, the contents of which had to be dried out with a hairdryer.
The two student unions, Glasgow University Union and the Queen Margaret Union, have also confirmed their support for the event and will host the ballot boxes on the day of the poll.
Unable to stuff the ballot boxes fast enough to steal the election outright, Mr Milosevic has half-stolen it by claiming enough votes to force his opponent, Vojislav Kostunica, into a run-off in two weeks' time.
Polling stations as small as caravans with electorates of less than 50 were opened, mountains negotiated and islands hopped to pick up the ballot boxes on election night with the aim of making those estimated declaration times.
The council's president, Tibisay Lucena, told AFP news agency that the expanded audit was not a recount but would cover all ballot boxes not audited on election day by reviewing a sample two-thirds of them over the next month.
Belgrade has made no requests to the NATO-led peacekeeping force, KFOR, to protect Serb voters from possible ethnic Albanian violence, and given no hint of when ballot boxes and officials will arrive or where they will be set up.
The Ballot Act of 1872 states that "the presiding officer of each station, as soon as is practicable after the close of poll, shall, in the presence of the agents of the candidates, make up (the ballot boxes) into separate packages sealed with his own seal and the seals of such agents of the candidates as desire to affix their seals".
Nothing is over and done with until the people put their ballot papers in the boxes, but Sinn Fein appears so confident that Francie Molloy will succeed Martin McGuinness that the party has already confirmed Mitchel McLaughlin as Mr Molloy's potential successor at Stormont as principal deputy speaker.
They spent two days picking 6, 000 names from cardboard boxes to fix the order in which candidates would appear on ballot papers for the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) and for 34 provincial councils.
Ms. WOODS: We expect that those people who are marching today will go to the ballot box in November, and they will drop their ballots in those boxes based on decisions that elected leaders are making today around issues of immigration.
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