1.   His campaign manager, Donna Brazile, was staying in the state until the voting gets under way.

2.   In Grozny, according to Interfax, grenades were lobbed into a school being used as a polling station before the voting got under way.

3.   Scattered problems were reported as the voting got underway.

4.   Scattered problems were reported as the voting got under way.

5.   The voting meanwhile got underway with tens of thousands of soldiers deployed in the Palestinian territories and south Lebanon casting their ballots a day ahead of their civilian compatriots.