Voters Get to Polls However They Can
From Times Wire Reports
Arriving at polling centers on pony, foot and motorbike, Mongolians voted in their fifth parliamentary elections since the end of communist rule in 1990.
Some nomadic herders were traveling up to 15 miles to cast ballots in traditional tents in the Gobi Desert or the sprawling steppes. Many dressed in their finest dels -- traditional ankle-length wool robes.
Polls indicated that the formerly communist ruling party, which won 72 of the 76 seats in the Great Hural assembly in 2000 elections, would dominate.
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