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Polling stations set up for first free local elections

(2 Feb 2002) 1. Wide shot Phnom Penh 2. Polling station 3. Election boxes 4. Various polling station officers 5. Posters being put up explaining how to vote 6. SOUNDBITE (English ) Srey Barmi, Polling Station Officer "I think that we have no violence or no shooting or something else." 7. Various polling booths being put up 8. Poster of Ankor Wat (ancient temple city), tilt down to polling officers 9. Voting boxes 10. EU Election Observation Mission 11. EU observers inside at computer and talking 12. SOUNDBITE (English ) Carlos Costa Neves, Chief of observers of the EU election observers "It can be a school for participation, a school for tolerance, a school for democracy and so by this very singular effect, we think that the elections are very important for the Cambodian people. It can have a very positive impact in the future." 13. Top shot shopping centre and crowds 14. Close up shopping centre sign 15. Various traders and people looking at wares 16. Close up woman looking at clothes 17. Stall selling trinkets 18. SOUNDBITE (Khmer ) Sovan Dam, voter "I'm happy to vote. 19. Man arranging plastic flowers 20. Woman discussing purchase of plastic rose 21. SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Soun Sokhon, voter "I'm happy to vote. I don't see a problem to go voting. It's election. So, I'll vote and tomorrow I'll close my shop." 22. Woman looking at stalls 23. Woman dragging rubbish cart through street STORYLINE: Cambodians are preparing polling stations ahead of Sunday's elections for village councils. The first local polls in the country are designed to spread democracy at grass-roots level. About five point two (M) million people are eligible to vote to elect representatives to the one thousand and 621 governing councils for communes, or village clusters. Communes are currently ruled by chiefs appointed by the government. For the first time, the EU has sent a team of observers to monitor the elections. They have got more than 100 observers placed all over the country. But there are concerns that violence could undermine the elections by not allowing people to cast their votes free of fear. At least 20 opposition party members (from the Funcinpec and Sam Rainsy parties) have been killed. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...