At nine o’clock on Tuesday morning, the polling committees began their work to receive voters wishing to cast their votes, for the second and final day in the first phase of the House of Representatives elections, which are being conducted under the supervision of advisors to the judicial bodies, and amid follow-up by various civil society organizations and local and international media.
The advisors to the State Cases Authority and the Administrative Prosecution Authority, heads of the polling subcommittees, resumed work this morning in the electoral committees and centers. After they – in the presence of the head of the security force of each committee and the candidate delegates – ensured the integrity of all the locks of the rooms designated for storing papers, as well as the ports of those rooms, and the seals with which those locks were affixed after placing red wax on them.
The advisors to the heads of the committees conducted an inspection of the ballot boxes and the coded plastic locks with which those boxes were closed yesterday evening, and made sure that they had not been tampered with or tampered with, and reviewed the codes of those locks and compared them with the established numbers. With the minutes of the procedures that they prepared yesterday, they signed and sealed them, then they informed the general committees of that, and announced the start of the voting process, which will continue until nine o’clock this evening.
Police forces were also present to secure the headquarters of the polling stations and their surroundings, and work to protect them, so that voters cast their votes in a safe atmosphere. Reassurance.
At the end of the election day, it is scheduled that the work of counting voters’ votes will begin, inside the headquarters of the sub-polling committees, where each sub-committee will announce the detailed numerical tally at the conclusion of the counting of voting cards, including the number of voters registered in the committee, the number of those who attended and cast their votes over the two polling days, the number of valid and invalid votes, and the number of valid votes obtained by each candidate as well as the electoral list, and proving those numbers in Minutes of the committee’s work, then notifying the general committees and follow-up committees, which in turn will send them to the National Elections Authority.
The first phase of the electoral process includes 14 governorates: Giza, Fayoum, Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, New Valley, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Aswan, Red Sea, Alexandria, Beheira, and Marsa Matrouh.
He is competing in the competition. At that stage of the elections, there were 1,281 candidates for individual seats, and one electoral list in the West Delta sector, and the Central, South and North Upper Egypt sectors, for the seats allocated to the electoral list system. The number of voters who are entitled to cast their votes in the first phase of the House of Representatives elections is 35 million, 279 thousand and 922 voters, distributed among 5,606 subcommittees within 70 electoral districts.
The electoral process is conducted under the follow-up of the missions of many international organizations, most notably: the League of Arab States, the African Union, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Arab Organization for Electoral Administrations. And the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, along with local civil society organizations and local, Arab and international media.
