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...bullets rather than ballots were the problem. In China-meca, in the eastern department of San Miguel, voters were fired on by guerrillas in nearby coffee groves. People scattered, and the polls closed less than two hours after they had opened. Election officials assigned to the town of El Triunfo in central Usulutan department had even worse luck. When they arrived early on election day, they found guerrillas smashing the Lucite voting urns and making a campfire out of the paper ballots. Three miles north of the departmental capital of San Miguel, posters warning of land mines were planted...