Was there any intimidation and/or harassment inside or outside the polling station against any of the following?

Was there any intimidation and/or harassment inside or outside the polling station against any of the following?

Country: 
Burma
Year: 
2015
Level of government: 
National

Regarding violence in or around polling stations, PACE did not receive reports of any significant incidents of election violence or VAW-E. Only 1% of reports received from observers indicated that there had been intimidation or harassment near the polling station at which they were stationed.

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Time period: 
Election day
Type of violence: 
Psychological
Public sphere
Victim of violence: 
Voter

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