Mr Maati rejected opposition allegations that fake judges supervised some of the polling - one of several complaints relating to voting fraud made by the opposition National Salvation Front after each stage of voting.
Two-stage voting has at least two salutary effects.
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However, voting in the second stage of the referendum appears to have gone relatively smoothly.
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For the UUP Leslie Cree criticised the "inefficient and burdensome reconciliations" which made the budget "not fit for purpose", however he added that there was no point in his party voting against the bill at this stage.
The IMF has won approval for the first stage of an overhaul of its voting structure that gives a slightly bigger voice to China and other emerging markets.
And that's important at this stage in the race, as people are early voting, as people are volunteering, as people are really getting engaged in the final three weeks.
But that still means a larger number are willing to consider voting for George W. Bush than said, at this stage in 1988, that they might vote for Mr Dukakis.
The company noted that the price could be increased by 3% if 95% of the shares and voting rights can be acquired within 6 months of closing of the first stage of the transaction, which would boost the price to 4.17 Euros a share.
But because of the Academies Bill's timetable, "we have the spectacle of ministers who have already told us they will accept no amendment, period, and the sight of whips new and old cracking their knuckles off-stage and perfecting basilisk-like stares in the mirror" to prevent MPs voting for any changes, he said.
Earlier after the stage 1 debate 111 MSPs voted to back the general principles with only three MSPs voting against.
Dozens of Conservative backbenchers had announced their intention to join Labour MPs in voting against the government's programme motion, which would have restricted line-by-line, committee-stage scrutiny of the bill to ten days.
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