I have been following Uganda votes on Twitter and the support for sitting President Museveni looks very strong. Africa.com has this news just minutes ago:

I couldn’t vote due to severe logistics issues in the polling station nearest to me. The Electoral Commission people are not renowned for their competence. Who will win the elections? It is a no-brainer really.

before the first vote was cast, nobody would have taken any bets on who was likely to win the presidential polls. That, as Maazi says, is a ‘no brainer’.

Remember, Saddam used to win his referenda with 99.9% of the vote. Oooooops…. Mubarak won the last election with 83% of the vote. A no brainer, really.

The outcome of the parliamentary elections may be more interesting (the father of a good friend of mine kept his seat, though the result was quite close, I gather; however it seems that a number of his fellow ministers have lost theirs).

Obviously, it is bad that some (including our very own ‘Maazi NCO’) didn’t get the chance to exercise their right to vote, but it does appear that these elections have been more peaceful than previous ones – which is good.

Conducting primaries was, IMHO, a ‘political masterstroke’ on the part of the NRM.