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Elections committee approves international monitoring of elections
Al-Masry Al-Youm 25 Feb 2013
The High Elections Committee agreed to allow four international and 50 local organizations to monitor the upcoming...
Voter casts her ballot in Presidential Elelctions runoff, Shalateen, Red Sea, 16 June 2012. Run-off between the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.  
Requests to monitor elections due Friday
Al-Masry Al-Youm 14 Feb 2013
NGOs and media organizations have one more day to submit requests to oversee the upcoming House of Representative polls...
US Congress delegation monitors presidential elections, Dokki, Giza, 23 May, 2012. Voting will take place on 23 and 24 May. Around 50 million voters will choose the new president from among 13 presidential candidates.
Carter Center says won't supervise constitutional referendum
Egypt Independent 13 Dec 2012
The Carter Center said on Thursday it would not send observers during the constitutional referendum scheduled for 15...
Commander Ahmed Shafiq, Presidential Candidate, casts his ballot in Presidential Elelctions runoff, New Cairo, 16 June 2012. Run-off between the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.  
Shafiq files complaint alleging election irregularities
MENA 22 Oct 2012
A lawyer representing former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq filed a complaint with the public prosecution alleging...
Mohammed Badie, head of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, (R) speaks with former US president Jimmy Carter during a meeting, Cairo, January 12, 2012. The Carter Center is one of the few monitoring groups to have had a licence to witness Egypt's first post-revolution election, in which the country's two main Islamist parties have scored a crushing victory.
Carter mission head: Brotherhood, Nour Party promised Egypt will remain civil state
Al-Masry Al-Youm 23 Jun 2012
Marwan al-Ma'shar, former Jordanian prime minister and head of the Carter election monitoring mission in Egypt ,...
Second day of the second tour of the Presidential elections in Dokki.
Election's political context flawed, say monitors
Nadine Marroushi 20 Jun 2012
International and local elections observers have condemned the political and legal context of the second round of Egypt...
US Congress delegation monitors presidential elections, Dokki, Giza, 23 May, 2012. Voting will take place on 23 and 24 May. Around 50 million voters will choose the new president from among 13 presidential candidates.
Election monitoring hindered by restrictions
Nadine Marroushi 28 May 2012
Despite high praise from the Presidential Elections Commission for expressing the free will of the people, the first...
A group of EU monitors as they leave a poll station, Helwan, November 28, 2010. As part of increased international interest in Egyptian politics, EU has sent a group of high-profile election monitors in order to ensure integrity and fairness of one most crucial parliamentary elections in Egypt's modern history.
Government, political forces and activists prepare to observe presidential election
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 May 2012
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Fayza Abouelnaga said on Tuesday that the Cabinet is meeting on...
Former US president Jimmy Carter, a member of the Elders group, speaks during a joint press conference with other members of the group, Damascus, October 19, 2010 on the third leg of their Middle East tour which has already taken them to the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Ganzouri meets with Jimmy Carter ahead of presidential poll
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 May 2012
Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri met on Tuesday with former US President Jimmy Carter, who heads an NGO that...
A voter casts her ballot in the 2010 Parliamentary elections in Ismailia, 28 November 2010. Elections are being held today from 8 am to 7 pm.
Govt officially allows election observers to begin work
Reuters 22 May 2012
Egyptian authorities have finally allowed observers of this week's presidential election to start work, monitoring...