Many of them carried guns. They forced election officials to count their illegal votes.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

What we have right now is low voter turnout, but the votes count

我们现在的问题是参与投票的人数较少，但每一张选票都是有意义的。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The statement also calls on both commissions to "rigorously carry out their legal mandates to count all votes and to exclude all fraudulent votes."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09