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.

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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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