Zimbabwe election extended to third polling day
Posted: Sunday, March 10, 2002

Zimbabwe's high count on Sunday night allowed a third day of voting, after long delays at the polling stations.

The opposition called for the extension after huge queues built up at polling stations in Harare. By late Sunday, the second day of voting, the queues in Harare's high-income, low-density areas had dwindled to a few hundred voters, but in some high-density, low-income areas, thousands of people were still in the queues waiting for their chance to vote. MORE 

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