How local Egyptian jokes about the election’s low turnout help real democracy survive dark times | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Egyptians have lost count of how many elections there have been since dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011. Many of them just don’t care anymore. The country went to the polls to vote for a new parliament on Sunday and Monday — or rather, some of the country did. Pictures of empty voting stations and…