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Various of crowd running alongside the convoy of opposition presidential candidate Etienne Tshisekedi running for the  Union for Democracy and Social Progress Party (UDPS)2. Armed police on back of pick-up truck arriving to disperse...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Various of crowd running alongside the convoy of opposition presidential candidate Etienne Tshisekedi running for the  Union for Democracy and Social Progress Party (UDPS)\u003cbr/\u003e2. Armed police on back of pick-up truck arriving to disperse crowd\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of police patrolling the street on foot\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (French) Vox Pop, UDPS supporter ++NON VERBATIM++\u003cbr/\u003e\"(Incumbent President Joseph) Kabila left his residence to cast his vote with his militia and he did that freely without being threatened. Now an opposition candidate had to go and vote in Tshangu (a district of Kinshasa).\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of crowds dispersing \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (French) Vox Pop, UDPS supporter ++NON VERBATIM++\u003cbr/\u003e\"Kabila, we have had enough of you and no longer want you in this country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various of Tshisekedi casting his ballot\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (French) Etienne Tshisekedi, Opposition Presidential Candidate for the Union for Democracy and Social Progress Party (UDPS): ++NON VERBATIM++\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everywhere people have already declared me as the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway of media\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (French) Etienne Tshisekedi, Opposition Presidential Candidate for the UDPS: ++NON VERBATIM++\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is also a lot of disorganisation which the Independent National Electoral Commission (Ceni) has commented on, we hope that with the pressure of population and pressure from the international community, things will return to normal soon.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. People walking through the streets holding up ballots\u003cbr/\u003e12. People gathered around a ballot paper\u003cbr/\u003e13. People holding ballot paper in the air\u003cbr/\u003e14. Charred remains of ballot paper\u003cbr/\u003e15. Ballot papers on fire ++NIGHT SHOT++\u003cbr/\u003eVoting materials arrived late or sometimes not at all in precincts throughout the country Monday, but elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo went ahead, raising doubts about the legitimacy of a poll. \u003cbr/\u003eLeading up to the election at least nine people were killed, and there are fears that the Central African nation, whose rain forests are still inhabited by rebel armies, could be plunged into violence again if it is unable to agree on the results of the presidential and legislative election. \u003cbr/\u003eCountry experts and opposition leaders had urged the government to delay the vote due to massive logistical problems. \u003cbr/\u003eSome districts of Congo, which has suffered decades of dictatorship and two civil wars, are so remote that ballot boxes had to be transported across muddy trails on the heads of porters, and by dugout canoe across churning rivers.\u003cbr/\u003eViolence over the weekend left at least four people dead, and it continued Monday when gunmen opened fire on a truck transporting ballots in the southeastern town of Lubumbashi. \u003cbr/\u003eThat and a subsequent attack by unidentified assailants left five more dead, according to Dikanga Kazadi, the provincial interior minister. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the capital, police fired tear gas to break up a crowd that had amassed outside a voting bureau.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the capital, several hundred run alongside the convoy of Etienne Tshisekedi, the opposition presidential candidate for the  Union for Democracy and Social Progress Party (UDPS), as he made his way to the polling station.\u003cbr/\u003eHis supporters said that President Joseph Kabila's time in office was coming to an end and they wanted him to flee the country.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter he cast his ballot, Tshisekedi, was upbeat saying many people were already calling him the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.\u003cbr/\u003eTshisekedi then criticised election officials for being disorganised which included one polling station not having ink to mark the index fingers of voters, election officials not having uniforms to clearly identify them along with a number of other logistical problems.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We hope that with the pressure of population and pressure from the international community, things will return to normal soon,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eSome people were also seen running down the street holding ballots before burning them as allegations of tampering with ballot boxes emerged.\u003cbr/\u003eThe vote is the second since the end of Congo's last war and the first to be organised by the government instead of the international community. \u003cbr/\u003eThere were delays at every step in the preparation. \u003cbr/\u003eThe ballots were only printed in neighbouring South Africa two weeks ago - not enough time to deliver them to the remote corners of a nation the size of Western Europe where less than two percent of the roads are paved.\u003cbr/\u003eLate Monday, election commission spokesman Matthieu Mpita announced that polling stations that had not yet received the necessary materials would be allowed to stay open until they did.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government is in a hurry to hold the vote because Kabila's term expires in the first week of December. \u003cbr/\u003eIf a new president is not elected by then, analysts say the country could slide into a situation of unconstitutional power - a scenario that could provoke further unrest.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the eastern city of Goma, Cindy McCain, the wife of United States Senator John McCain, is leading a delegation of poll watchers. \u003cbr/\u003eShe said that in one polling station, they found ballot boxes were already a third full when they arrived at dawn.\u003cbr/\u003eThere were also unconfirmed reports of full boxes being found in Kasai Occidental province, and of voting officials refusing to show witnesses that boxes were empty before voting began in the locality of Mbandaka.\u003cbr/\u003eAmong the logistical challenges is the staggering number of candidates (18,385) competing for the 500 seats in parliament. \u003cbr/\u003ePosters of candidates featured their number on the ballot, which is as thick as a major newspaper's weekend supplement. \u003cbr/\u003eA third of Congolese adults can't read, a rate that is even higher among women. \u003cbr/\u003eMany were showing up with slips of paper filled in by relatives stating the number of their candidate of choice.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's unclear if the lateness observed in voting centres nationwide will affect the outcome of the vote, but it added to a cloud of uncertainty.\u003cbr/\u003eBecause the opposition is split with 10 candidates vying to unseat the 40-year-old Kabila, most analysts expect him to win.\u003cbr/\u003eThat will come as an especially hard blow in Kinshasa, where his popularity has hit rock bottom due to the spiralling cost of basic goods and worsening 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