Libya Election: High Hopes, Turnout, and Expectations

Just as Libya watchers everywhere had hoped, turnout was high, and violence minimal in Libya's first national election in decades. Stay tuned for election results later this month! Meanwhile, catch a recap of today's vote in the Christian Science Monitor - Libya election: In Tripoli high hopes, turnout, and expectations.Turnout was high in the first post-Qaddafi Libya election today, with voters eager to help start building a new regime.Final results of today’s election are not expected until later this month. Some observers have speculated that Islamists could score well, as in Tunisia and Egypt.For Mr. Triki, in Tripoli’s old city, such questions are secondary to the task of building a democratic system.“We’ll probably need a second and third election to know what people really want,’ he says. “For now, we’re still building state institutions.”Asked how it felt to vote at last, he spoke for multitudes: “Happy, happy, happy!”