Word: pollinger
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Still, the irregularities steadily reported throughout the day - from ballot stuffing to vote buying to intimidation inside polling stations - cast a pall over Mubarak?s majority. Repeated cries of foul play raised questions about whether the crucial elections for Egypt?s 454-seat parliament, due to be held in the...
A 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...
TIME staff did, however, also see confusion and intimidation. Despite an eleventh-hour agreement to allow independent Egyptian bodies such as the ICEM to monitor voting, TIME encountered Egyptian monitors who claimed to have been blocked from entering some polling stations. ICEM monitor Suleiman Azahiry, 26, said he feared arrest...
Negad El Borai, a monitor for another coalition called the National Campaign for Monitoring Elections, said he visited at least 10 polling stations in Cairo and witnessed the type of violations that had characterized Egyptian elections in the past. ?At some places, I saw (NDP members) give voters 10 pounds...
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...