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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - Malians dipped their fingers in blue ink and marked ballots with pictures of the candidates running for president Sunday — the country's fourth democratic vote in a region where vote-rigging and election-related violence is rife.
President Amadou Toumani Toure was widely expected to win a second five-year term against seven opponents, despite complaints by some that he has not done enough for the 60 percent of the population that lives below the poverty line.
"I'm here to vote so that another Mali may be possible," said 18-year-old Alima Sanogo, a university student who was waiting to cast her ballot for Tiebil Drame, a schoolteacher and former Cabinet member running against Toure.
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