1.  And unlike last year, the tally sheets did not disappear mysteriously for hours at a time between the voting places and the computer centers.

2.  At one voting place, a folk band played music near the end of the day and at another, a couple held their wedding.

3.  At several voting places visited on Thursday, the only complaint was that voting was slow because of the elaborate precautions against cheating.

4.  At voting places there will be signs telling voters their rights.

5.  Bexar County added precincts, which also increased the number of election workers needed, and many voters did not realize that their voting place had changed.

6.  But election officials said that if someone votes at his old voting place and still lives in the city, the vote is still valid.

7.  But there were reports that at least three people died in the southern state of Oaxaca in confrontations at voting places.

8.  In Leogone, moments after the young woman publicly expressed her happiness, an opposition party leader screamed his displeasure inside the voting place.

9.  In other voting places, the commission members joked with each other and traded family gossip from their villages as they counted the votes.

10.  In the Texas case, Briones also said the state must ensure access to voting places for people in wheelchairs and for others whose mobility is impaired.