Voting hours extended to accommodate large turnout in Egypt CAIRO, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Long lines on the first of two Saturdays of voting on Egypt's new constitution prompted officials to extend polling hours twice. The Kuwaiti news agency KUNA said Egypt's Supreme Electoral Commission first extended voting from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and when the lines still had not dissipated, pushed the deadline back to 11 p.m. The New York Times reported the Muslim Brotherhood predicted a convincing victory for ratification. An unofficial count by the organization early Sunday, based on tallies posted at each voting station, gave it 57 percent of the votes cast. The vote in Cairo was about 52 percent against. The newspaper said the rural half of the country that will vote next is expected to heavily favor the draft document. KUNA reported voters it surveyed outside polling stations expressed both support for and against the proposed constitution. Voice of America reported men and women voted separately at schools in Cairo and nine other provinces. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a former Muslim Brotherhood member, was among them, the network said. The other half of the country's 51.3 million voters will cast ballots this coming Saturday. It wasn't clear when the results would be announced, VOA said An opposition group, the National Salvation Front, accused the Muslim Brotherhood, which favors the controversial draft constitution, of rigging the outcome. Ahram Online reported the day's voting was generally peaceful, though there was tension and some heated arguments among voters, as well as reports of inefficiency because of a shortage of election judges and voting violations. One voter who told Ahram Online in Cairo she was against the draft constitution prompted angry retorts from other voters who called her "unpatriotic."