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'Everything is going to plan' - Liberians vote in first election run without UN
Source: The Guardian
'Everything is going to plan' - Liberians vote in first election run without UN
Citizens go to the polls in first election the west African country is managing itself – but echoes of civil war reverberate
Ruth Maclean in Monrovia
Wednesday 11 October 2017 09.52 BST
Liberians have voted in large numbers in the first election run entirely by the country’s institutions and security forces since the civil war.
Police officers and election officials who had been preparing for months took their places at polling stations, listening sympathetically to complaints about impatient voters pushing in the queue and missing names on the rolls.
Though there were reports of ballots not arriving at stations until mid-afternoon, and of a politician being arrested after handing out money, such incidents appeared to be fairly isolated.
A video of police dealing with “election violence” which circulated on Facebook turned out to be just a drill.
-snip-
Citizens go to the polls in first election the west African country is managing itself – but echoes of civil war reverberate
Ruth Maclean in Monrovia
Wednesday 11 October 2017 09.52 BST
Liberians have voted in large numbers in the first election run entirely by the country’s institutions and security forces since the civil war.
Police officers and election officials who had been preparing for months took their places at polling stations, listening sympathetically to complaints about impatient voters pushing in the queue and missing names on the rolls.
Though there were reports of ballots not arriving at stations until mid-afternoon, and of a politician being arrested after handing out money, such incidents appeared to be fairly isolated.
A video of police dealing with “election violence” which circulated on Facebook turned out to be just a drill.
-snip-
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/10/liberian-voters-peace-historic-election-under-way