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In Liberia, they are concentrating on activities aimed towards peace building and have come out with two separate societies, which are the National Committee for Elections Monitoring (NACEM) and the Civil Society Network (CSM) with support from National Democratic Institute (NDI) to monitor the elections.

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Meanwhile, the election observer Nicfec and the National Democratic Institute said in a report they had found evidence in some communes of people being registered without documentation and that not all registration sites were open as late as they should be.

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"If you look at the elite level and particularly in Sana’a, you’re seeing a competition among traditional rivals playing out,” said Leigh Miles, the Yemen program manager for the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C. Miles has spent six years watching Yemen’s political changes.

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Laura Thornton, country director for the National Democratic Institute, which supported the NICFEC in implementing the study, said that the findings “weren’t surprising”.

“We find the annual process of voter registration quite cumbersome for Cambodians,” she said. She also said it was “problematic” to place responsibility for voter registration in the hands of the commune council, an elected body.