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...preliminary ICEM report said that organizers for Mubarak?s National Democratic Party (NDP) paid some Egyptians between 50 and 100 Egyptian pounds ($8-16) to cast ballots for the president, an accusation of fraud that the ICEM says is backed up by video and audio recordings. The report cited instances in which police directed voters to local offices of Mubarak?s NDP to receive fake voter cards. The report noted instances in which security forces or election officials destroyed ballots marked for opposition candidates, AND issued ballots already marked in favor of Mubarak. Mubarak supporters, the ICEM added, were campaigning...
...from entering some polling stations. ICEM monitor Suleiman Azahiry, 26, said he feared arrest and was ordered to remain 100 yards from a voting station near the village of Tukh, 15 miles north of Cairo. ?They wrote our names down and threatened us,? Azahiri, who acknowledged his opposition to Mubarak?s re-election, told TIME after the incident...
...pounds ($1.75) with my own eyes,? he told TIME. In Helwan, supporters of two opposition parties said officials at an NDP office gave 20 Egyptian pounds ($3.50) and a fast-food sandwich to young men in exchange for their agreement to go to polling stations and vote for Mubarak...
...Mubarak?s supporters maintained a strong presence inside some voting stations, too. TIME reporters saw some, unimpeded by judicial supervisors loitering and peering over the shoulders of voters, who were marking their ballots in full view of others rather than behind a curtain in secret. Others chanted slogans inside a polling station at a Sayeda Zeinab elementary school...
...Shubra Khema, one of Cairo?s largest and poorest districts, a man identifying himself as a Mubarak volunteer followed a TIME reporter out of a polling station at the Omar bin Abdulaziz school to allege in a whisper that fellow NDP election workers and election officials had committed more than 200 instances of vote fraud. The man, who asked that his name not be used because he feared being arrested in retribution, claimed that party workers provided Mubarak with the names and registration numbers of other registered voters, and election officials then allowed the imposters to vote using the false...