Egyptian Elections - it's all anyone's talking about

Get to the back of the line: voters tell candidates to wait their turn; No more room for grey in a black and white vote; it's all a matter of facts and figures; the importance of citizen journalism; all the choices are bad choices for Nadia el Awady.

Egypt Independent Blog [2]

Candidates have to queue too!

People’s Assembly Speaker and Muslim Brotherhood leader Saad al-Katatny arrived at a polling station in 6th of October City to cast his ballot. He entered the polling station quickly but later was asked by one of the voters to go back to the end of the line.

Sandmonkey [3]

No room for grey

The Egyptian voter would like some clarity, and neither one of those two candidates - Amr Moussa or AbulFotouh - offered them that, which was incredibly evident in the debate that took place between them last week.

Egyptian Chronicle [4]

Language of numbers : The Egyptian Presidential elections

After 12 hours Egyptians will vote in the first presidential elections ever. This is the first real multi-candidate presidential elections in the history of Egypt. The number of registered eligible voters inside Egypt is : 50,407,266 The number of judges participating in this election is : 14,509 ...

Not Green Data [5]

Citizen Journalists Workshop in Mahalla

I started by asking them the difference between between "News and Information" then we went to social media and how one can find news (and information) there, and the second session was about "Finding News Sources on Twitter", we then discussed the Egyptian Law and the "Publishing Offences".

Nadia el Awady [6]

Why the 2012 Egyptian Presidential Elections Make Me Want to Barf

Egyptian elections are the day after tomorrow. This will be the first time in the history of Egypt that Egyptians will have a real say in who will be their president. This should be a time for rejoicing. For some Egyptians, it is. I am not one of those Egyptians.