The Egyptians attended multitudinously to the polls yesterday after the historic departure of former President Hosni Mubarak, in a referendum to decide on political reform but was marred by an attack on presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei. Groups of youths hurled projectiles pushed and former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency of the United Nations (UN) when he tried to vote in the constitutional consultation, which will define the speed with which Egyptians can hold elections.
"Do not we do not love you, "chanted the approximately 60 people who staged the incident, many of them teenagers." I went to vote with my family and I was attacked by professional killers, "he wrote on Twitter. His vehicle was stoned as he left the place and a rock blew up rear glass, a witness said.
The politician could not vote. "I have 53 years and never voted before because it was all fixed," said Ahmed al-Hami, one of about 100 people who were waiting in line to cast their ballots in a room south of Cairo . "We vote for freedom." 
"Do not we do not love you, "chanted the approximately 60 people who staged the incident, many of them teenagers." I went to vote with my family and I was attacked by professional killers, "he wrote on Twitter. His vehicle was stoned as he left the place and a rock blew up rear glass, a witness said.
The politician could not vote. "I have 53 years and never voted before because it was all fixed," said Ahmed al-Hami, one of about 100 people who were waiting in line to cast their ballots in a room south of Cairo . "We vote for freedom."
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