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Faces in the crowd in Egypt’s election

May 23rd, 2012

Abdullah Ali, 82, poses for a portrait after casting his ballot at a polling station Al Saff, Giza Province, Egypt on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. On Wednesday morning, Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. This election is the first free and fair presidential race since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)Egyptian voters of many ages, occupations and beliefs stood in line for hours Wednesday to cast their ballots for a new president. The winner would replace Hosni Mubarak, deposed in a popular uprising last year. He was voted in several times, but those elections were generally regarded as blatantly rigged, and turnout was low.

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