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Egypt tweeps monitor elections
Published in Youm7 on 28 - 11 - 2011


9:00pm
@evanchill Sealing the individual seat ballot box in el-Khoga school in alexandria #egyelections yfrog.com/nxrejmj
7:30pm
@evanchill Today's #egyelections fun fact: FJP guy who showed us around for a bit today wore a sweatshirt labeled "Central Intelligence Agency"
@TamerELG complaint were polling places opening late, some ballots being smuggled out, instances of ppl offering to buy votes and rampant campaigning
7:00pm
@TheMiinz A friend of mine was offered money in a Nasr City voting committee. He took it and voted for someone else. Brilliant #egyelections
6:00pm
@yasminerashidi Still a few thousand in line at the womens voting station in zamalek...so many v.old people- very moving #egyelections
4:30pm
@mmabrouk coptic lady next to me takes one look at two burly bearded guys and says "here come the troublemakers." they give her a chair. "oh." #egypt
4:00pm
@Sarahngb Oh I remembered something, no women inside checked the faces of the Monaqabat ladies. #EgyElecFraud #NasrCity
3:50pm
@mmsabry #egyelex police officer at shobra stn is shocked to see a reporter, "what do you mean reporter?"
3:20pm
@mosaaberizing So far no significant violation in Zamalek poll stations. Few people from different parties handing leaflets but majority not interested.
@Budzaya The ink washed right off from my finger. I wasn't even trying to get it off! =/ #Fail #EgyElections
3:10pm
@LaurenBohn Kids run through an Assiut village screaming "Lanterns, Lanterns!" Salafi Hezb al Nour's symbol #EgyElections #Egypt
@Ikhwanweb Democratic Alliance: Volunteers Outside Polling Stations to Assist Voters, Not Campaigning http://dlvr.it/y2GfR
2:50pm
@evanchillWe're hearing that the FJP is getting legal challenges across the country for its election-day campaigning activity. #egyelections
@farida904 Judge has allowed Brazilian journalists inside the polling stations #egyelections
2:40pm
@cairowire polls that opened late will stay open until judges deem that the delayed hours are made up for, per #HEC. #egyelections (via @KariM_KassaB)
@Omniaaldesoukie Interviewed a couple who were over 70 and yet they came to vote for the first time ever #egyelections
2:30pm
@AymanM #egyelections only in egypt can an official have the audacity to blame vote delay on traffic car problems getting lost & frequent bus stops
@mmsabry #egyelex police colonel kept me out of the shobra stn number 567, says media was banned by judge.
@RamyYaacoub Judge just walked out on the ballot boxes without locks on them in sub stations 285 & 286 twitpic.com/7l2vyr #egyelections
2:00pm
@RaywaRageh Dozens block highway in #Assiut coz they didn't find their names in voters list. Security took them & promised to resolve issue. #Egyelex
1:30pm
@FarahSaafan I saw leaflets for Kotla and Thawra Mostamera! Everyone is doing it! Not just FJP & Nour Party! #egyelections
@beltrew In Daher,Christian area-fights as polling station has been shut twice.Voters saying this is trying to silence the christians #egyelections
1:20pm
@Arabist Just saw the parties chart we published on Arabist being scrutinized in voter line. That's a feel good moment. #egyelections
1:00pm
@lilianwagdy polling station @ helmeyet el zaytoun school for boys has not opened yet people are raving mad
@MohHKamel 90% of the ink on my finger is gone after washing it ONCE. Not worried though. You sign next to your name in the voters' list. #EgyElec
12:40pm
@AymanM Polling Station 347 in Waili has been closed because voting got underway before a judge had arrived to supervise the process #egyelections
12:30pm
@BassemKameel LOVING the voting process, everything is very organized here in maadi #egyelections
@kristenchick Army told us better to leave zawiya because he's afraid the people who citizen arrested us might attack us. Leaving now for Shoubra
12:20pm
@beltrew pamphlets handed out for el kotlas el masreya [Egyptian Bloc] outside polling station. Not just MB breaking the law http://yfrog.com/od8inhij
@farida904 "Wait! Which finger??" 3/4 of Egyptian voters before dipping their fingers in ink #truestory
@hollypickett Now army officer comes out and tells us that he was told not to let any journalists inside the polling station. #egyelections #Alex
12:00 noon
@jonjensen I'm 4 for 4 on getting inside polling stations. Army gave me a thorough frisking in Boulaq first though, "because you're foreign." #Egypt
@CairoCacophany One coptic voter says #Egypt ballot papers have not been stamped on purpose in christian neighbourhoods. Lot of distrust around.
11:55am
@daliaziada Elections are so secure and safe and quick. I am happy with every thing except the ink!! It looks ugly unlike the one used in Mach :) ;) :D
11:50am
@daliaziada I caught a woman in niqab from MuslimBrotherhood inside the poll station trying to influence ppl's choices. the supervisor kicked her out
@ianinegypt So far after 5 polling stations, I've seen more women than men lined up to vote. #egyelections #egypt
@moftasa Looks like police/army r busy stopping journalists from filming & restricting their access than preventing illegal campaigning #egyelections
11:45am
@hackneylad We're less than four hours into a four month election, but one thing seems clear: rightly or wrongly, huge numbers of Egyptians want to vote
11:20am
@RawyaRageh And there u go. Illegal flyer-ing as it's happening #Assiut #Egyelections #Egypt http://yfrog.com/nuiz5fyj
11:10am
@mfatta7 First the police officer u need permission (we have it) then said i will ask judge n later said judge doesnt want you inside
@mfatta7 We were denied entry to a polling station in alexandria to film voting.
08:20am
@jamalaljazeera Women voters in #Alexandria despite rain #Egypt #SCAF #Tahrir #EgyElections @AJELive yfrog.com/o0egomhj


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