Many street signs in Cluj are still in both Hungarian and Romanian, but in Tirgu Mures, a town that is 50 percent Hungarian 40 miles to the east, the signs are only in Romanian.
In Leglia, a sleepy ethnic Hungarian village of 700 peasants about 20 miles northwest of Cluj, residents complained about having to travel to a nearby village to vote.
"The revolution in favor of democracy and against communism is in great danger," said Doina Cornea, quoted by the French-language newspaper Tribune de Geneve in an interview at her home in the western town of Cluj.
Mrs. Cornea, 60, is an instructor at Cluj University and endured years of hardship for publicly opposing the repressive policies of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was overthrown and executed in December.
In the Cluj region, the only major complaint was the same echoed elsewhere in the country _ the long lines of people waiting to vote, due to a heavy turnout and complicated voting procedures.
Former Cluj university professor Doina Cornea has not been seen since June 6, following her third protest letter to Ceausescu.
Agache, 33, lives in Cluj, in the heart of Romania's Transylvanian country.
State-run radio and television reported isolated incidents of pre-stamped ballots being discovered in Bucharest and Cluj.