Massive voter turnout for general elections

Feb 18, 2016

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Ugandans  turned out in force to cast their vote in the presidential and parliamentary polls that opened on Thursday.

At Ntinda New Market in Nakawa Division, voting started more than an hour late at 8:20am. Although the materials had arrived at the polling station at about 7:30am, impatient voters were told that polling officials cited a hiccup with the biometric voter identification machines.

The exercise was smooth as long queues of voters braved the searing heat to cast their ballot.

At Kisaasi Quran Primary School in Kyanja, voting started at 8:30am due to a delay in arrival of polling materials. A few of the voters who were at the polling station by 7:30am left before voting begun.

Invalid votes

At Ntinda New Market, it was evident that several ballots would be invalidated after polling officials noted that voters were folding the ballots the wrong way before placing them into the ballot box.

While the ballots are supposed be folded vertically, many voters were folding them horizontally, raising the risk of ink spilling on boxes of other candidates.

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residential candidate en enon iraro casts his vote Presidential candidate Gen. Benon Biraro casts his vote

 

 

 

mama babazi voting at arubeizi  polling stationatson araire Amama Mbabazi voting at Karubeizi COU polling station.PHOTO:Patson Baraire

babazi and his family members line up to vote at arubeizi  polling station in anungu district Mbabazi and his family members line up to vote at Karubeizi COU polling station in Kanungu district

 


 


 

 

 

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