A day at the polls
Ukraine: Campaigners at the 2009 presidential election turned the inauguration of a chapel into a political event.
Signing the electoral list for the 2005 parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan.
Pictures of the candidates on the ballot papers for the 2006 presidential polls in Madagascar make it easier for illiterate voters to make their choice.
Local election observers and polling station workers look on as a man casts his ballot during the 2005 parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan.
Ukrainian security forces stationed outside a government building in Kiev during the Orange Revolution in 2004.
Officials check the electoral roll to see whether a voter is entitled to participate in the 2006 presidential elections in Madagascar.
Getting ready to count the votes at a polling station in Kyrgyzstan in 2005. Local observers keep a watchful eye.
A blackboard at a school in Madagascar is used to list the results from the elections in 2006.
Monitoring elections in Africa and Asia.
Impressions from election days in Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine (pictures: Heinz Rudolf von Rohr)