An electoral official marks a voter's thumb inside a polling station in Nagrain village on the outskirts of Janakpur, in the Terai region of Nepal, April 10, 2008. Around 135,000 police, many of them armed, guarded polling stations in the hills and plains, as Nepalis chose a 601-member assembly that is supposed to write a new constitution, abolish a 240-year-old Hindu monarchy and serve as a parliament for at least two years. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (NEPAL)