Crowd cheers vote count in Mandalay after fears of rigging
To cheers and boos from the watching public, electoral officials in a Mandalay Region township are counting votes one-by-one in public. The unusual counting method was adopted to allay fears that unqualified voters had been trucked in to rig the result.
More than 300 people gathered outside polling station 5 in Maha Aung Myay constituency after between 100 and 180 people arrived in several truckloads, prompting suspicions that the voters were not residents of the town.
