In the city of Mahalla the crowds had gathered in a football stadium to look on as Egypt's parliamentary votes were being counted to ensure that the counting would not be rigged.<br /><br />The city was already tense after several polling stations were illegally shut.<br /><br />Violence has marred Egypt's parliamentary elections with hundreds of opposition supporters battling police at vote counting stations.<br /><br />There are no exit polls to indicate who is likely to win the vote, but what most people predict is more clashes and violence regardless of who the winner is.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal sent this exclusive report.
