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 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Algerians, shaken by al-Qaida-claimed suicide bombings and dealing with a tough economy, slowly trickled to vote in legislative elections Thursday under tight police security.
Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said that turnout by 5 p.m. was 28.4 percent — far below the 38.2 percent recorded in the last legislative election in 2002.
The low turnout was widely expected, due as much to frustration and apathy as to fears of a terrorist attack.
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