Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: “This is a huge change, the fact that people can stand around and talk openly about their views,” said Namo Mariga, an agribusiness entrepreneur, after casting his ballot in the upscale suburb of Borrowdale. “The atmosphere is much freer.” 
  
 The election pits Mr. Mugabe against the former union organizer Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change. Mr. Tsvangirai won the most votes in the first round of the election in 2008 but refused to participate in a runoff because of the attacks on his supporters. A deal brokered by regional powers put the two rivals into an uneasy power-sharing agreement, and both are now seeking an outright victory to govern alone. 
  
 “It is quite an emotional moment sometimes when you see all these people after all the conflict, the stalemate, the suspicion, the hostility,” Mr. Tsvangirai said after casting his ballot. “I think there is a sense of calmness that finally Zimbabwe will be able to move on again.” 
  
 Sporadic problems were reported in a number of regions. Lines were long in urban areas, raising concerns that not everyone would be able to vote Wednesday. The challengers said the Zimbabwe Election Commission had deliberately reduced the number of polling stations in their strongholds to discourage voters, but the commission denied it. Some voters who registered recently found that their names were not on the rolls, but they were able to cast ballots using the registration receipt. 
  
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 “We’ve already made clear this election is illegal, illegitimate, unfree and unfair,” said Tendai Biti, the secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change, at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. “We are participating with a heavy heart.” 
  
 The planning for the election has been chaotic and rushed because Mr. Mugabe unilaterally set a much earlier election date than other political parties had anticipated. 
  
 But early reports from election officials and some monitors said that the voting had gone well. Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria who is leading the African Union observer delegation, said that based on initial reports the voting had been peaceful and orderly, and appeared to be free and fair. 
  
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 Joyce Kazembe, the deputy chairwoman of the Zimbabwe Election Commission, said, “I believe that the election is free and fair.” Turnout was very high, the commission said, and it ordered that polling stations stay open until midnight to accommodate people waiting in long lines. 
  
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 Mr. Mugabe, after casting his ballot, appeared confident of victory in remarks to reporters. Asked if he would serve a full five-year term, he said: “Why not? Why should I field myself if it’s to cheat the people and I resign after?” 
  
 Fears of rigging remained high. Neil Padmore, 35, brought a pen to the polling station because he had heard people say that the government’s pens used special ink that would disappear a few hours after the ballot was cast. 
  
 “I am hoping that the sheer volume of the voters will prevent them from rigging,” said Mr. Padmore, who runs a company that lays fiber optic cable. “We need change in Zimbabwe. We can’t have this draconian environment.” 
  
 But some voters said that Mr. Mugabe and his party, ZANU-PF, deserved to stay in power because they put Zimbabwe’s agricultural land, long controlled by a few thousand white commercial farmers, into the hands of black people through seizures. 
  
 Amina, a 26-year-old clothing trader who lives in Mbare and asked that only her first name be used, said that her brother had been given a farm by the government and was prospering. 
  
 “He’s getting rich by the season,” she said. Her father fought in Mr. Mugabe’s insurgent army in the 1970s and lost a leg to a bomb. Mr. Mugabe, she said, made black people masters of their own destiny. 
  
 “He always told us the main grievance for the war was that we needed land,” she said. “They wanted to be masters of their own country.” ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismisses Wednesday's election 
  
 Zimbabwe's election was a "huge farce", Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said, alleging vote-rigging by rival President Robert Mugabe's camp. 
  
 Mr Tsvangirai said Wednesday's presidential poll was "null and void". 
  
 The largest group of election observers described the vote as "seriously compromised" and said up to a million Zimbabweans were prevented from voting. 
  
 Meanwhile, first official results from national assembly elections show Mr Mugabe's party taking an early lead. 
  
 Zanu-PF won 25 of 28 seats announced, although they were mostly in Mr Mugabe's rural strongholds, correspondents say. 
  
 Mr Mugabe's party, which is claiming a victory, has denied accusations of vote-rigging, saying the voting went smoothly. 
  
 The 89-year-old president is running for a seventh term. 
  
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Observer Irene Peterson said the electoral commission had serious issues to address 
  
 Voters were choosing a president, 210 lawmakers and local councillors and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has five days to declare who won the poll. 
  
 Extra police units, some in riot gear, have been deployed in the capital, Harare. 
  
 Legal challenges are now likely to follow, but much will depend on whether Zimbabwe's neighbours endorse the poll, says the BBC's Andrew Harding. 
  
 'Sham election' 
  
 Speaking at the headquarters of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party in Harare, Mr Tsvangirai said: "Our conclusion is that this has been a huge farce. 
  
 If you think Zimbabwe's election campaign was bitter and polarising - wait for the furious new battle taking shape in a country that rarely finds "closure" at the bottom of a ballot box 
  
 "The credibility of this election has been marred by administrative and legal violations which affected the legitimacy of its outcome. 
  
 "It's a sham election that does not reflect the will of the people." 
  
 Some international observers have praised the conduct of the election. 
  
 But the largest group of domestic observers, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), said the voting was compromised. 
  
 ZESN chairman Solomon Zwana told the BBC the organisation remained "concerned about some cases of irregularities that have occurred in some areas". 
  
 The ZESN said potential voters were much more likely to be turned away from polling stations in urban areas, where support for Mr Tsvangirai is strong, than in President Mugabe's rural strongholds. 
  
 It claims that up to a million of the country's 6.4 million eligible voters were prevented from casting their ballots. 
  
 'Free, fair and credible' 
  
 Zanu-PF's senior members were already celebrating victory. 
  
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Lewis Machipisa looks back a decade to when he was forced to leave Zimbabwe 
  
 "We have romped [to victory] in a very emphatic manner," one member, who asked not to be named, told AFP news agency. 
  
 Zanu-PF's information secretary, Rugare Gumbo, said observers from several countries were all satisfied with the conduct of the election. 
  
 "I don't understand where this thing of saying the election was a farce is coming from," he told the BBC. 
  
 Britain said it was too early to comment on the outcome of the election, but noted the "peaceful atmosphere". 
  
 A spokesperson for the Foreign Office said it was "concerned by the late publication of the electoral roll and reports of large numbers of voters who were turned away". 
  
 If no candidate in the presidential vote gains 50% of the ballots, a run-off will be held on 11 September. 
  
 Zanu-PF and the MDC have shared an uneasy coalition government since 2009 under a deal brokered to end the deadly violence that erupted after a disputed presidential poll the previous year. |||||
Student:
Results haven't been officially announced yet in Zimbabwe's just-completed presidential election, but President Robert Mugabe's main challenger is already decrying the entire affair as a "huge farce" and declaring the outcome "null and void," the BBC reports. "It's a sham election that does not reflect the will of the people," Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said. Election monitors say he's got a point. They yesterday revealed a host of alleged irregularities and dirty trickery, including: In cities, where Tsvangirai is popular, 82% of voters were turned away. In rural areas where Mugabe has an edge, half that many were. In some areas, village leaders rounded people up, marched them to the polls, and gave them each voting numbers in an apparent attempt to verify who they voted for. Literate people were allegedly forced to pretend they were illiterate so they could have someone "help" them vote for Mugabe's Zanu-PF party. Mugabe's party initially declared victory on Twitter, but it has since rescinded the tweet amid a hail of criticism, CBS News reports. A Zanu-PF official admitted there had been irregularities, but said the party had tried hard to make Zimbabwe "as conducive as it possibly can [be] for an election that is free and fair." And, on the bright side, African regional observers praised the vote for being violence-free—unlike the 2008 campaign, which the New York Times points out was rife with intimidation. "This is a huge change," one voter said. "The atmosphere is much freer."