31.   Meanwhile, authorities said one poll watcher was shot to death in an incident apparently not directly linked to the voting.

32.   Neither is there need for any political party or candidate to field any poll watcher.

33.   One poll watcher in Barahona, a town in a sugar-producing region west of Santo Domingo, said the presence of international observers may have reassured voters.

34.   So national party Chairman Terry McAuliffe poured dozens of staffers, poll watchers and money for phone banks into a special Pennsylvania Senate election earlier this week.

35.   Seventy of those people were poll watchers, according to a brotherhood-backed group monitoring the elections.

36.   State party officials say the money paid scores of poll watchers monitoring the vote in New York City.

37.   The commission met through the night Sunday, and held a four-hour meeting with poll watchers responsible for the ballots and other materials.

38.   The Brotherhood, for its part, accuses the government of rigging the elections by preventing its poll watchers from observing the voting and by detaining its supporters.

39.   The Brotherhood, for its part, accuses the government of rigging the elections by depriving its poll watchers from observing the voting and by detaining its supporters.

40.   The elections were largely peaceful except for the fatal shooting of a poll watcher.