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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/opinion/11sun3.html
Egypt's Imitation Election
(New York Times) Editorial - On Friday Husni Mubarak was officially declared the winner of Egypt's presidential elections, collecting 88.5% of the votes. Compared with the real democracy that Egypt's 76 million people need and deserve, the election was an elaborate and largely meaningless sham. Egyptians need real democracy so that they can demand an end to the corruption and nepotism that stifle economic and educational opportunity and a halt to the social and political injustices that fuel sterile cycles of violent unrest and repression.