Irregularities Cloud Victory for Morsi in First Round of Referendum - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Mohannad Sabry

Mohannad Sabry

Dec 16, 2012

Supervising judge of El-Baheyya El-Burhaneyya polling station in Cairo's poor district of Sayyeda Zeinab fills the count forms after more than two hours of counting votes. Sunday Dec. 16, 2012. — Supervising judge of El-Baheyya El-Burhaneyya polling station in Cairo's poor district of Sayyeda Zeinab fills the count forms after more than two hours of counting votes. Sunday Dec. 16, 2012. — AL-MONITOR/Mohannad Sabry

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.

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Lines of male and female voters wait at the yard of Al-Qadima Elemenrary School in Egypt's Monofeya to cast their ballots in the second phase of the constitutional referendum held on Saturday Dec. 22, 2012.

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An official counts ballots after polls closed during the final stage of a referendum on Egypt's new constitution in Bani Sweif, about 115 km (71 miles) south of Cairo December 22, 2012. Early indications suggested Egyptians approved an Islamist-drafted constitution in Saturday's second-round referendum despite opposition criticism of the measure as divisive. REUTERS/Stringer (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

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Barbed wire erected by Egypt's republican guards separates between soldiers and protesters who chanted against the constitutional referendum scheduled on Saturday Dec. 15.

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