21.   Military and police reinforcements were ordered to protect voting materials and electoral officials in case of ethnic or political unrest, government spokesman Mamadou Koulibaly said.

22.   Moncion said no voting stations opened in the three northern towns because they had no voting materials.

23.   On Friday, a lone arsonist set ablaze a provincial election bureau and destroyed voting materials.

24.   Polling stations open late and lack sufficient voting materials.

25.   Ruling party militants took over two polling stations and stole voting materials from a third.

26.   Ruling party militants reportedly took over polling stations, stole voting materials, and brought ballots already marked in favor of Mugabe, observers and opposition supporters have said.

27.   Some stations opened late Sunday morning as electoral workers arrived tardy or failed to have voting materials ready.

28.   Some stations were without polling workers, while others were missing ballots or other voting materials.

29.   Some voters had to wait up to three hours to cast ballots because of poorly trained poll workers or lack of voting materials.

30.   Some voters said they had to wait up to three hours to cast ballots because of poorly trained poll workers or lack of voting materials.