11.   Opposition officials said the reported turnouts in pro-Mugabe areas did not match the reports from their polling agents.

12.   They also said the Election Commission had assured them that MDC polling agents will be allowed to travel with ballot boxes when they are transported.

13.   He said his party was so cash-strapped that it might not even be able to provide polling agents at the elections which are eight days away.

14.   He said rules prohibited the transport of ballot boxes except during daylight hours, adding that police and polling agents would spend the night guarding the boxes.

15.   Hospital sources said an MQM polling agent was beaten to death and several others injured in earlier violence.

16.   An MQM polling agent was beaten to death and others injured, sources said.

17.   BNP candidate Moudud Ahmed complained to Hena that Awami League supporters had driven out his polling agents and set off crude bombs around the centres.

18.   Each party is to have polling agents who will record vote tallies made at each polling station and accompany the ballot boxes to counting centers.

19.   The opposition parties said their polling agents reported widespread irregularities, including possible ballot stuffing and vote buying.

20.   The restored amendments will allow polling agents to require that voters produce proof of residency, even if they have already registered to vote.