Sinn Féin has accused security forces in the North of harrassing voters and photographing them at polling stations.
As Northern Ireland began voting in European and local elections West Belfast Assembly member Mr Michael Ferguson of Sinn Féin said members of the PSNI had been reported filing and photographing voters and cars outside St Aidan's Primary School on the Springfield Road this morning.
He said: "This sort of blatant intelligence gathering is unacceptable and is clearly designed to intimidate voters from going to the polls."
Earlier, the party's mid-Ulster representative for the party, Mr Francie Molloy, said the British army was intimidating voters at a polling station in Dungannon, Co Tyrone.
"This morning two British Army landrovers surrounded the Sinn Féin election caravan parked outside Saggart Polling station in Dungannon", he said.
"A large number of British Army personnel then left the jeeps and began patrolling around the entrance to the polling station and harassing both election workers and voters.
"This is clearly the British contribution to the electoral process in Ireland," Mr Molloy said.