The electoral commission says the voting was peaceful and orderly, with only minor problems.

选举委员会说，选举过程是和平、有秩序的，只出现了一些小问题。

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Electoral commission spokesman Matthieu Mpita says polling places that finished with voting should forward results to counting stations as normal.

选举委员会发言人姆皮塔说，完成投票的投票中心应该照常将结果呈交给计票站。

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The Rev Lennox Yearwood, who runs an outfit called the Hip-Hop Caucus, argues that minorities, having tasted electoral success with Mr Obama's election, are now less sceptical about voting.

运营嘻哈核心组织的Rev Lennox Yearwood声称，少数族裔已经在奥巴马的选举中尝到了竞选成功的滋味，现在他们对竞选成功没有任何的怀疑。

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The former foreign minister acknowledged some of his backers are urging a boycott of the second round of voting, but said he did not want to address the matter personally and risk sapping the electoral campaign of energy.

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But General McChrystal has warned that more are needed. On the contested outcome of last month's presidential election in Afghanistan, Spanta said voting "irregularities" are not unusual in emerging democracies and that the Independent Electoral Commission and the U.N.-supported Election Complaint Commission are working to address the complaints and recount some of the ballots.

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But beyond that are practical values to electoral voting.

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Republicans, who have lost four of the last six presidential elections, are moving in key battleground states to change electoral voting from winner-takes-all to a distribution of votes depending on the popular vote.

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Proponents of the bill would really like to do away with electoral voting altogether but, realizing how difficult it is to gain the two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress to approve and three-fourths of state legislatures to ratify a Constitutional amendment, have instead devised this clever end-run.

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