Egypt orders probe into alleged vote violations

Associated Press ^ | Dec 18, 2012 1:41 PM EST | Maggie Michael

[Olog-hai]

Thousands of Egyptian protesters marched on the presidential palace and Cairo’s downtown Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest a contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution, after the country’s Justice Ministry ordered a probe into allegations of widespread voting irregularities during Saturday’s first round of voting on the document.

Since the country’s political crisis erupted more than three weeks ago, the opposition has kept the pressure on the government of President Mohammed Morsi with mass marches that at times have seen turnouts of hundreds of thousands. Morsi’s Islamist supporters have countered with rallies of their own.

Chanting “down with Brotherhood rule,” and “your constitution is void,” the opposition made its first major street push since Saturday’s round of voting on the constitution. Preliminary results showed that 56 percent of voted cast “yes.” The second round of voting is set for Saturday. The opposition fears that large Islamist constituencies in rural and upper Egypt will increase the votes in favor. …

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Astonishing how the regime propagandists (news media) are smothering the story of Egypt; 0bama calling for Egyptian ally Mubarak to step down then Team 0bama funding the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood to impose Sharia Law to become an Iran-like State using a TRICK called 'Arab Spring Democracy' to fool Americans into supporting the switch. 0bama's failure to call for Morsi to step down following his declaration of Dictatorship SPEAKS VOLUMES.

Not only does 0bama view one less American ally a GOOD thing, it is highly probable that Hillary encouraged Morsi to declare himself dictator after the two met in Gaza. Meanwhile, our Congress fully accepts 0bama's war on America's foreign posture and the willful undermining of our superpower status and our legacy of 'American exceptionalism'.

[Missouri gal]

If only we could have a vote fraud investigation here. If only we could have mass demonstrations against the Muslim bro in the WH.

[bgill]

We’ll be looking into ours any day now....