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Pakistanis Deal a Blow to Musharraf
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"I arrived about an hour ago, and I have been unable to vote because they did not open the polls, and the election officials are saying that they do not have the list with my name on it," said Hafiz ur-Rehman, a supporter of the Pakistan People's Party.
Tempers ran high when election officials at the station said they could not find a list containing the names of 324 voters. "It's very concerning to me, because it's our right to cast our vote. We are not servants; we are voters," said Salehain Quereshi, a local council member and People's Party supporter who said election officials refused to record his complaints.
Confusion over the missing voter rolls also incensed some of Musharraf's backers at the station. Khanja Muhammad Khursid Alam shook his head in disgust as he watched an election worker struggle to find another voter's name.
"They are untrained people. They don't know how to work in polling stations. People come out and want to vote," said Alam, a polling representative and member of Musharraf's party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q.
Official election results are expected to be tallied and released before the end of the week.
Constable reported from Lahore. Special correspondents Imtiaz Ali in Peshawar and Shahzad Khurram in Islamabad contributed to this report.
