1.   Security is tight this week at the polling sites.

2.   At some polling sites, ballots lay strewn on the ground, handled by anyone who happened by.

3.   At one Port-au-Prince polling site, election material was stained with bloody footprints near the spot where a precinct worker was shot and wounded.

4.   Agents involved in the decertification movement, like Elmore and Kauffman, will likewise be present at polling sites.

5.   But problems ranging from ballot shortages to vandalism shut down hundreds of polling sites while angry voters turned on election officials with barbs and protests.

6.   In Cite Soleil, a Port-Au-Prince slum, a sidewalk comedian was drawing a larger crowd than was observed at several polling sites.

7.   Kids Voting USA even sets up cardboard voting booths at official polling sites so children can vote alongside their parents.

8.   Local television reported heavy turnout at other Baton Rouge polling sites.

9.   On Tuesday evening Dole made an unplanned stop at a polling site in Derry, south of here, to ask for votes personally.

10.   Organizers refused to open polling sites, touching off a near riot.