Nazarbayev Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan and Communists polled below the seven percent needed to enter parliament, the Central Election Commission said. It was unclear if the trend would continue once paper ballots were counted. "The election campaign was neither equitable nor free," Bulat Abilov, a leader of Ak Zhol, said before the count began. "All that remains is to confirm that the voting is unfair." Otan and Asar have dominated the media and been aided by local authorities, said the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The pan-European democracy body was to give its assessment of the election on Monday. At a polling station in Almaty, the ex-Soviet republic's biggest city, people voted in bright blue booths. --More 2337 Local Time 2037 GMT
