Voting opened in the tiny Indian Ocean nation of Maldives yesterday in the Islamic country's first multi-party presidential elections.
But reports of widespread irregularities spread almost immediately after polling started, with voters throughout the country's 196 far-flung inhabited islands complaining of an incomplete voter register.
A four-hour emergency meeting of the elections commission resulted in a decision to continue polling, but with an ad-hoc registration system in place that raised concerns over manipulation.
Source: www.ft.com
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