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APTOPIX China Village Election
A Chinese police officer guards in front of a board to show result of counting votes for the candidates during an election to select village committees at a polling station in Wukan village, Lufeng city, south China's Guangdong province, Saturday, March 3, 2012. Villagers who rebelled against officials they accused of stealing their farmland voted for new leaders on Saturday in a much-watched election reformers hope will promote democracy as a way to settle many of the myriad disputes besetting China. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)