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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7207247" data-attributes="member: 92282">A shooting incident and reports of intimidation - mostly by ruling  party supporters - marred Thursday's parliamentary elections in Sri  Lanka, independent election monitors said.             The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV)  reported 160 incidents of poll-related violence during the first four  hours of balloting across the country.             A shoot-out between a group of opposition and government  supporters in the island's south early on Thursday damaged a vehicle,  but caused no injuries, CMEV spokesman D.M. Dissanayake said.             Most complaints were against the ruling United People's  Freedom Alliance led by President Mahinda Rajapakse.             "Pro-government supporters are reported to have  intimidated voters," Dissanayake said, adding that in some places  unidentified men had grabbed polling cards from those trying to cast  their ballots.             He said dozens of war-displaced people in state-run  makeshift shelters were without transport to get to polling booths.             The private People's Action for Free and Fair Elections  reported cases of pro-government supporters chasing away polling agents  belonging to opposition parties.             More than 14 million people are eligible to vote, with  7,620 candidates from 36 political parties and 310 independent groups  running for parliament. First results are expected by midday on Friday.             Police had deployed 60,000 constables and kept another  20,000 military personnel on alert to deal with any major outbreak of  violence during the nine-hour voting period.AFP</blockquote>

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