Novelist Kamila Shamsie said she waited five hours to vote at the same polling station.
In at least one polling station, voters were handed their voting slips by alleged torturers.
"I have voted no for the document, " said Kizito Marwe, at a polling station east of Harare.
At one polling station in Mexico City, a 46-year-old attorney from the state of Michoacan was fuming.
"I walked right in, there were even empty polling booths, " the voter said of his church polling station.
In Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum, some 1, 000 people stood in several lines at one polling station before daybreak.
Most voters in Kibera like Amos Achola, who said he arrived at the polling station at 2 a.m.
In one polling station in Accra, prayers for peace were held before voting began, Reuters news agency reports.
The idea was for voters to have fingerprints rescanned in the polling station, and checked against their cards.
The problem, he said, is that the local polling station is mixed gender.
Amazingly, we can watch residents of Anadyr crowding the polling station in Chukotka.
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NPR's Gwen Thompkins is at a polling station in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
With his daughter Judith he queued up at a polling station in Bulawayo and prepared for a long wait.
Such was the degree of enthusiasm for openness that one television channel broadcast live from inside a polling station.
The NCP agent in the polling station complained but the official stood firm.
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And yes, a polling station is one of the most public of places.
There is only one polling station in the capital, Nuuk - a town of 15, 000 with only two traffic lights.
To make a difference, you have to get to the polling station and put a cross on the ballot paper.
In the past two Brazilian presidential elections, a polling station was even set up in Dongguan a novelty for local Chinese.
There were representatives of both main parties in every polling station I visited but I did not see many observers.
It changed the electoral law so that votes will now be counted in district towns rather than at each polling station.
The Brotherhood presented reams of paperwork attesting to their candidate's victory, including a nationwide breakdown of voting totals by polling station.
Voters are given a clutch of ballot papers at the polling station, each one with a different candidate's name and colour.
At a polling station in Sisulu Street, next to the former home of Walter Sisulu, the BBC met 74-year-old Xorilela Makakwa.
In Mateela, the men say they are willing to let women vote if the election commission sets up a separate polling station.
The whole idea is to give everyone who took the time to show up at a polling station access to a ballot.
In one polling station in Paris, a party official complained that there were 40 more ballots than voters on the party list.
Outside the polling station in Lahore's King Edward Medical University, 50-year-old tailor Shabir Hussain said he was also casting his vote for PTI.
The U.S. military said two 127 mm rockets were fired in central Baghdad Thursday morning, one of them landing behind a polling station.
He told reporters at the polling station that the election is evidence that Iraqi people live under a high level of safety.
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