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A Palestinian election official marks votes to the candidates for the Palestinian presidential elections during the vote counting at a polling station in Gaza City, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2005. Votes to the Palestinian presidential candidate front-runner Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, are seen in the third row. On the second row votes for Mustafa Barghouti are counted. On top a poster depicting the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound is seen. Abbas was elected Palestinian Authority president by a wide margin Sunday, exit polls showed, winning a decisive mandate to renew peace talks with Israel, rein in militants and try to end more than four years of Mideast bloodshed. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Murad Sezer)