Know the Election Commission by name

Written by Ibrahim Qasim – Omnia Al-Muji

Saturday, December 9, 2023 07:00 AM

The National Elections Authority has completed all the necessary preparations to hold the presidential elections inside the country, in the sub-polling committees in which citizens will cast their votes, which amounted to about 11,631 committees inside 9,376 electoral centers, including schools, youth centers, and health units.

The electoral process, which begins tomorrow morning, is supervised by 15,000 judges from various judicial authorities and bodies. They will supervise the presidential elections inside the country, including the heads of subcommittees or conservation committees. The judges supervising the electoral process have begun receiving the papers and the commission is following up on… He closely monitored all the procedures for transporting them to the headquarters of the committees that they will supervise, noting that the vote-counting process will take place inside the sub-polling committees at the end of the third day of the electoral process.

The National Authority took into account the facilitation of the elderly and voters with special needs in distributing voters to the electoral centers, and was careful in choosing the locations of the sub-polling committees to take into account the requirements of the elderly and people with disabilities, to facilitate the voting process for them, and not to inflict on them any difficulty or trouble, and it developed written instructions. In all polling stations for people with hearing disabilities to facilitate the voting process for them, it also adopted Braille voting cards to facilitate blind voters.

The National Elections Authority sent an invitation to all diplomatic missions accredited inside Egypt to follow up on the electoral process, and that 24 embassies have already submitted to the authority and 67 diplomats have registered for follow-up work, and 14 international organizations have been approved to participate in the work of following up on the presidential elections, and the number of follow-up permits has been issued to them. In this regard, there were 220 followers of these organizations, in addition to the registration of 62 local civil society organizations, and permits were issued to 22,340 of their followers.

The number of media followers of the presidential elections reached 528 international followers from 115 media outlets and journalists, in addition to 70 local media outlets and journalists for whom permits were issued to 4,218 journalists and media professionals. The phase of “propaganda silence” for Bey began yesterday, Friday, and will continue for 48 hours, according to the schedule. And the procedural procedures for the presidential elections, and that according to this stage, no candidate in the elections or his official campaign may carry out any work of advertising, promotion, or talk about the electoral program, and that this step aims to provide the voter with the opportunity to choose carefully from among the candidates without any influences on his decision. .

The National Elections Authority created polling committees for expatriates and expatriates across the governorates, after receiving many requests and inquiries in this regard, indicating that these committees will include industrial and tourist areas and all governorates that have expatriate populations, to enable voters from outside the electoral domicile to cast their votes and implement their constitutional rights.