Reported irregularities included the disappearance of 30 ballot boxes in Hebron, the stuffing of ballot boxes, illiterate voters having their ballots filled out for them by Arafat loyalists and double-voting.
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"Some employees are showing the illiterate voter not how to vote, but who to vote for, " said Jean-Pierre Dufort of the Assembly of Popular Organizations, a coalition of neighborhood groups.
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On voting day, they not only kept the long lines at the polls orderly, but in some remote areas also marked ballots for illiterate voters who had never held a pencil.
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"I did not know how to handle this EVM and I had to take the help of the presiding officer, " said Raman Das, an illiterate voter in eastern Bihar state.
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DRE or touch screen electronic voting, allows voters to " simply touch the pictures of candidates they wish to elect, " and were especially for disabled and illiterate voters.
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Ahmed Taqesh said that since he could not read or write, he would enlist a relative's help in filling out the ballot _ a provision permitted in the case of illiterate voters.
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"Some employees are showing the illiterate voter not how to vote, but who to vote for, " said Jean-Pierre Dufort, 27, of the Assembly of Popular Organizations, a coalition of neighborhood groups.
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It is said that, on this occasion, an illiterate voter who did not recognise Aristides approached the statesman and requested that he write the name of Aristides on his voting shard to ostracize him.
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With so many illiterate voters, the ballots have pictures of the candidates, along with symbols for the parties _ icons such as a clump of bananas, a stalk of corn, or a capped bottle.
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To help illiterate voters _ the government says 61 percent of the 14 million registered voters have no academic qualifications _ all parties have chosen clearly identifiable logos to make them stand out on ballot papers.
