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Article: Ethiopians overwhelm polling stations to choose new parliament
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- AP Worldstream
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- May 16, 2005
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CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-16-2005
Dateline: ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
Ethiopians voted by the millions, responding enthusiastically to an unprecedentedly open parliamentary race between the coalition that ended a brutal dictatorship and an opposition promising greater liberalization.
The worst problem foreign election observers found Sunday was the crowds, with some voters waiting hours to cast their ballots. But a senior opposition official said after the vote that his party's observers had been chased out of polling centers where ballots were being tallied.
"In many places our poll watchers are being kicked out and we don't know who is counting the vote," said ...
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