1.
GTV ELECTORAL CARDS BEING SORTED OUT
0.08

2.
SCU DITTO
0.16

3.
CU CARD WITH SHAPE OF ALGERIA ON BACK
0.20

4.
SV CLERK SORTING ELECTION CARDS
0.25

5.
SV CARDS BEING STAMPED
0.28

6.
GV VOTING BOXES.
0.32

7.
CU VOTING BOXES
0.35

8.
SV DITTO
0.39

9.
CU VOTING SLIPS IN ALGERIAN & FRENCH
0.44


FILM TAKEN THAT DAY, SHOWS BALLOT BOXES AND VOTING CARDS BEING PREPARED IN THE CITY'S TOWN HALL. SOME 650 BOXES WAITED TO BE SENT TO 303 POLLING BOOTHS IN ALGIERS. THERE ARE 436,504 NAMES ON THE CAPITAL'S VOTING LIST.




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Background: FACED WITH OPEN REBELLION IN SOME ALGERIAN ARMY UNITS, BEN BELLA'S POLITBURO HAS DELAYED THE COUNTRY'S FIRST GENERAL ELECTION. ANNOUNCING THIS IN ALGIERS YESTERDAY (SATURDAY), MR. MOHAMMED KHIDER, THE BUREAU'S SPOKESMAN, SAID THE ELECTION-SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 2 - HAD BEEN POSTPONED "UNTIL REAL CONDITIONS OF PEACE HAVE BEEN ASSEMBLED."
(M. KHIDER BLAMED OFFICERS OF THE LOCAL ARMY COMMAND-'WILLAYA FOUR' - FOR THE POSTPONEMENT. HE SAID THEY SOUGHT TO IMPOSE THEIR AUTHORITY ON ALGIERS; THEY HAD SEIZED THE RADIO STATION AND DOCKS AND WERE REFUSING TO CARRY OUT POLITBURO INSTRUCTIONS. TWO DAYS AGO, REBEL SOLDIERS IN THE THIRD AND FOURTH WILLAYAS SAID THEY REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE POLITBURO'S AUTHORITY. THE ARMY BLAMES THE BUREAU FOR UNEMPLOYMENT AND HUNGER.)