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Egyptians go to the polls
Egyptians vote in historic presidential elections, the Arab nation’s first since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak
An Egyptian man casts his ballot on the second day of Egypt’s historic presidential election, at a polling station in Cairo on May 24, 2012. (AFP/Getty Images)
A policeman and soldiers help a man in a wheel-chair into a polling station in Cairo on May 24, 2012, the second day of voting in Egypt’s historical presidential elections. (AFP/Getty Images)
An Egyptian woman casts her ballot in a polling station, on the second day of the country’s landmark presidential election on May 24, 2012. Egyptians swarmed polling stations on the second day of a gripping presidential election in which candidates are pitting stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s rule. (AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptian election officials count ballots at a polling station in a Cairo school on May 24, 2012 after polls closed in the country’s landmark presidential election. Around 50 million eligible voters were called to cast their ballots in 13,000 polling stations around the country. (AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptian presidential candidate and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq holds a press conference in Cairo on May 26, 2012. Shafiq, ousted leader Hosni Mubarak’s ex-premier who is set to face a Muslim Brotherhood candidate in a presidential run-off, pledged to restore the country’s revolution. (AFP/Getty Images)
Former US President Jimmy Carter, who is leading a delegation monitoring Egypt’s first post-revolt presidential election, speaks during a press conference in Cairo on May 26, 2012. Carter said the process was ‘encouraging’ despite unprecedented constraints. (AFP/Getty Images)
Issam al-Eryan, an Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader, arrives in a hotel in Cairo for talks on May 26, 2012, as the apparent winners of the first round of Egypt’s landmark presidential vote announced their group was seeking to create a coalition of forces to challenge Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak. (AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptian presidential Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi waves to his supporters in Cairo on May 26, 2012. The apparent winners of the first round of Egypt’s landmark presidential vote reached out to rival candidates ahead of a June run-off, as international monitors called the initial voting process ‘encouraging.’ (AFP/Getty Images)
Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi gives a press conference in Cairo on May 26, 2012. The Muslim Brotherhood today urged Egyptians to rally behind their presidential candidate in an almost certain run-off with rival Ahmed Shafiq, warning the country would be in danger if fallen dictator Hosni Mubarak’s premier wins. (AFP/Getty Images)
