Some revolutionaries spoilt ballots to reject both the military council and the Brotherhood

Evidence

The blogger Mahmoud “Sandmonkey” Salem came out in support of spoiling ballots. He said that the real point was to say “fuck you to the Supreme Council of the Muslim Brotherhood.” He rejected the interim military government that was clearly in dialogue with the Islamists, and he did not trust SCAF to put on fair elections. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 305

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Revolutionaries can refuse elections as legitimating the state they seek to topple — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 305; Fragmented secular revolutionaries split their vote and lost to organized blocs — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 306; Extremists reject current authorities they see as betraying higher ones — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 134

Broader Connections