It's 8:20 pm on election day in Sierra Leone... and by all reasonable accounts things went very, very well... Very little violence. Few problems. Lots of people.

NEC has announced several issues such as campaign posters too close to the polling stations and polls not opening on time... There were some reports of overcrowding and transportation problems... but honestly... No big deal.

I have to say, I was reasonably impressed. Of course, let's just wait and see what happens now... Vote counting has begun but official results won't be announced for several days.

We'll wait... at 1:00 pm, voter turnout was at around 65%. Wow... no voter apathy here. Anticipating up to 85% turnout.

More later,
S/