21.   Police officials said that they were forced to open fire when some people forcibly entered the polling center and tried to disrupt vote counting.

22.   President Shahabuddin Ahmad has empowered the military to make arrests at polling centers during the October elections when they see rioting or voting fraud, his office said Thursday.

23.   The poll, whose results were reported by the Interfax news agency, was conducted by the respected VTSIOM independent polling center.

24.   The victims were part of a motorcade taking sealed ballot boxes from polling centers to a counting office.

25.   Then, the voters will be allowed to stay at the polling centers and watch the votes being counted.

26.   Then, voters were allowed to stay at the polling centers and watch the votes being counted.

27.   They tried to use a half-finished mosque as a polling center to try to calm the protesters.

28.   Thousands of army troops and policemen guarded the polling centers to maintain order.

29.   Victor Fuffy, the head of monitors for the Council of Europe said he saw no irregularities in the polling centers he visited.

30.   Victor Fuffy, the head of monitors for the Council of Europe said he saw no irregularities in polling centers he visited.