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A voter studies a ballot paper at a polling station in Garden City on November 28, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

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People queue outside a polling station to vote in the parliamentary election in Shubra neighbourhood, Cairo November 28, 2011.Goran Tomasevic/REUTERS

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An Egyptian woman reads a ballot paper before casting her vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Cairo November 28, 2011. Egyptians queued up to vote on Monday in the first big test of a transition born in popular revolutionary euphoria that soured into distrust of the generals who replaced their master, Hosni Mubarak.Ahmed Jadallah /REUTERS

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A man dips his finger in ink after casting a vote at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Cairo November 28, 2011.Amr Abdallah Dalsh /REUTERS

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An Egyptian woman shows her ink-stained finger after voting at a polling station in the Manial neighbourhood of Cairo on November 28, 2011.Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

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