1.   Both the counterfoil and the voting slip have identical numbers printed on them similar to a cloakroom or raffle tickets.

2.   Officials at some polling stations subsequently declared the voting slip invalid.

3.   For the first time, voters were presented with a single voting slip bearing the names of all the candidates.

4.   He presented his passport, received his voting slip and vanished into a booth.

5.   He presented his national passport, received his voting slip and vanished into a booth.

6.   He said districts are checking the number of ballots against the number of voting slips issued.

7.   After a brief visit to a booth, Krajisnik slid his different-coloured voting slips into corresponding ballot boxes.

8.   Among the handful of reported incidents, a Bucharest citizen was questioned for attempting to slide numerous voting slips for Nastase into a ballot box.

9.   Balde died and the other unidentified man was injured, while a bag containing voting slips disappeared.

10.   Bossou, who is close to Houngbedji, said the interior ministry had not sent out all the promised voting slips by the day before the poll.