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Opposition Says Irregularities Mar Egyptian Voting

Egyptians voted on a draft constitution Saturday, some waiting for hours to cast their ballots and complaining of poor organization. Mohannad Sabry reports from a Cairo polling station.
A military soldier directs a line of female voters inside Al-Baheyya Al-Burhameyya polling station in Cairo's poor Sayyeda Zeinab district where hundreds of voters lined around the building to cast their ballots in the first phase of Egypt's nationwide constitutional referendum. Saturday Dec. 15, 2012.

CAIRO —The line of voters at Al-Bahheya Al-Burhaneyya polling station in Cairo’s poor district of Sayyeda Zeinab stretched for a few hundred yards outside the school building.

Inside the polling place, the scene was chaotic. Only four judges were overseeing four boxes for the ballots of district residents voting on their country's draft constitution.

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