After spending the night outside polling stations, thousands of Zimbabweans resumed voting Sunday in what amounts to a referendum on the 22-year rule of President Robert Mugabe. The wait appeared more orderly Sunday after police ordered voters to stand in single-file lines, with men and women standing separately. The order came after Saturday's jostling and pushing in many of the long lines that stretched for hundreds of yards along city blocks and through fields. The voting also appeared to be going more quickly. . The government reduced the number of stations in urban areas -- where the opposition is strong -- and increased them in the countryside, where Mugabe is more popular. Ruling party militants took over two polling stations and stole voting materials from a third. At another station, ballots arrived already marked in favor of Mugabe, observers and opposition supporters said Saturday.
Now, who sez Mugabe's guys aren't helpful? |