CAIRO: Egyptian voters showed extra care in making sure their votes were safe and not tampered with on Saturday during the second round of the first post-revolution presidential race. Voters brought their own pens to the polling stations and insisted on using them. A few judges supervising the stations were reported to be objecting on the outside to the pens and insisted voters use the committee's own ink. It came as voters were subjected to a rumor that said the official ink was removable within a few hours, hence changing votes would be possible. Officials from the elections committee however, warned that some pens sold outside the voting polls were in fact erasable and that judges had been warned about allowing voters to use pens brought in from outside.
