Egyptian voting and mobile phone cameras
April 2nd, 2007

“Egyptian blogs have published amateur video footage purporting to show ballot stuffing and vote fraud in a nationwide referendum on constitutional amendments which opposition groups say was rigged,”this AsiaMedia article says.”The government says it won 76 per cent approval in Monday’s vote for the amendments,which give the state powerful tools that could be used to drive opposition Islamists from politics.Rights groups say the changes are a step backward for freedom.A handful of video clips,most of which appear to be taken by mobile phone cameras and circulated on Egyptian blogs and websites, contain some of the first images of alleged fraud in the vote and could reinforce the accusations of vote-fixing.Egypt says turnout in the referendum was 27 per cent.But all main opposition groups boycotted the vote and rights groups said the real turnout was much lower”.Further,”in one of three clips, a man purported to be an election official in the Nile Delta appears to mark names on a voter list,then folds a pile of ballots and stuffs them into a transparent vote box.A close-up of one of the ballots shows it is marked with a “yes” vote”.

Egypt:Video blogs expose vote fraud in referendum

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