Jordan extends election voting by an hour

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? A Jordanian official says polling stations will be kept open for an extra hour to allow more people to vote in the nation's parliamentary election.

Independent Electoral Commission spokesman Hussein Bani Hani says polls will now close at 8 p.m. local time (1700 GMT).

He says turnout in Wednesday's vote so far has reached nearly 53 percent of the 2.3 million Jordanians who are registered to vote.

The government has touted the election as a step toward greater democracy that will see Jordan's absolute monarch cede more power to parliament, the only elected body in Jordan's government.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jordan-extends-election-voting-hour-160641842.html

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