Jun 6th, 2009 - Reuters
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese voted in a parliamentary election on Sunday in which the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its allies will try to overturn the majority held by their Western-backed rivals.
Polling stations opened at 0400 GMT and some 50,000 members of the security forces fanned out over the 26 electoral districts to guard against violence, focusing on areas where competition is expected to be tightest.
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