Failed biometric machines, broken ballot boxes mar start of voting

Daily Monitor
Thursday January 14 2021
Agents of various candidates are briefed before voting starts at Nsasa polling station in Kira, Wakiso District.
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However, many polling stations in Kampala and metropolitan areas experienced glitches as polling material arrived late.
Our reporter at Kyengombe park yard polling station in Rubaga South said by 7.30am, no polling agent had arrived but the voters were still waiting.
At Lugala Namungona Kigobe polling station, voters had already come in big numbers by 7am but polling material had not arrived yet.
Fatuma Nakawunga, a polling assistant at the polling station, said that the Electoral Commission (EC) had assured them that polling material would be available as early as 6am but they were also not sure what was happening.

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