"I walked right in, there were even empty polling booths, " the voter said of his church polling station.
Ultimately it was voters inside polling booths, not lawyers, who settled that fight.
The prospect of shifting troops away from the front line to defending polling booths is not one the army relishes.
At 7 a.m. sharp on election day, 11, 699 polling booths all over Cambodia opened their doors to more than five million voters.
Spain's recovery, in other words, will at best be faintly apparent by the time voters reach the polling booths early in 2012.
They will probably be called back to the polling booths in June.
That could see polling booths in shops and even the possibility of election days being moved to Sunday instead of the traditional Thursday.
That was supposed to end this year, with the arrival of a new electoral council, to be staffed by independents, and automation of many polling booths.
Mr Lieberman emerged from the polling booths as the big winner but he, too, has been dealt a complicated hand for the weeks of coalition poker than will now ensue.
But ultimately, when voters stood alone in polling booths, facing the choice of where the Netherlands would have the best hope of emerging from the crisis, they placed their faith in Europe.
BBC: Netherlands election analysis: Dutch show faith in Europe
Only one venue seems to have been less popular than London's polling booths - and that was the hall in Church House that had been decked out to host the 'Yes' celebration party.
It might help, thinks Mr Prescott, if it were easier for people to vote, say by holding elections at weekends, by putting polling booths in supermarkets or by allowing voters a choice of polling stations.
Dr. AGUAYO: I think it will take a few weeks, because on Wednesday, the electoral authority is going to scrutinize each one of the polling booths and gradually there will be results legitimized, legalized by the electoral authority.
"We now live in a society in which millions of our citizens prefer to vote characters off reality TV programmes - using their mobile phones at 25 pence a shot - rather than turn up at polling booths for elections, " he said.
"When you go to those polling booths on Tuesday and over the course of this weekend, as you work towards this moment, I ask you to think about the great tradition of our party and who we need to be for America, " he said.
Now, any registered voter can vote as early as two weeks before Election Day at any of a limited number of polling booths set up in populous Broward and Miami-Dade counties, key to Democratic hopes of victory in Bill McBride's campaign to unseat GOP Gov. Jeb Bush.
Then there were another 600, 000 votes that just weren't able to be counted during the preliminary count because they came from very rural polling booths that were very far away from the central district offices where they had to be physically brought to in order to be counted.
Aged 46 and with no apparent likelihood of Gambians being tempted to lose their marbles at polling booths, the chances are His Excellency Sheikh, Professor, Alhaji, Doctor Yahya AJJ Jammeh will be around for a long time as President and Commander in Chief of the Republic of The Gambia.
Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), an organization aimed at promoting human rights in Egypt, told the BBC they received 50 complaints on electoral violations ranging from delay in opening voing booths, to campaigning for candidates outside polling stations during voting.
Thousands of voters were brought in by buses to marshalling tents near the polling stations, where they were helped to find their names on the register and ushered to the booths.
ECONOMIST: Rigged in the north, more or less fair in the south
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