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 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ethiopians voted Sunday in a first round of general elections that the opposition boycotted to protest alleged intimidation by ruling party officials.
The electoral board received no reports of irregularities or incidents before polls closed nationwide at 6 p.m., board official Tesfaye Mengesha said.
The board did not have an official turnout figure, but Tesfaye estimated it would be around 90 percent of Ethiopia's 26 million registered voters. The country's total population is around 80 million.
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