CHAPTER SIX

Election Procedures

1. In every Constituency, a Central Committee shall be formed headed by the Administrative Governor and having as members the Chief Judge of the Court of First Instance in the Constituency, or a Magistrate Judge in Constituencies that have no Court of First Instance, as well as a Government employee appointed by the Minister of Interior. This Committee shall perform the functions provided for in this Law.
2. Before they carry out their work, the President and members of the central Committee shall take an oath before the Minister of the Interior to perform their task with honesty and impartiality.

1. Within thirty days of the date when the registration or review procedures of the Electoral Lists in the relevant Constituency are completed and have become final in accordance with the provisions of Articles (12) and (15) of this Law, the Administrative Governor shall issue a decision, to be published in the Official Gazette, and in any other means he deems necessary, containing the following:
   
   1. Dividing the Constituency into Electoral Sub-districts.
   2. Designating one or more Ballot Centers for each Electoral Sub-district and specifying the number of voters in each Center, provided that they do not exceed 700 voters in any case.
   3. Inviting the Voters registered in the Final Electoral Lists to obtain, within the period he specifies in his decision, their Personal Election Card from the concerned authorities.
      
2. In the decision he issues in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph (A) of this Article, the Administrative Governor shall pay deference to the number of Voters in the designated Electoral Sub-districts and the Ballot Centers he designates for each of them and the available ways and means of transportation in the Sub- district with the view of facilitating the arrival of the Voters to these centers.
   
3. Electoral Sub-districts and the Ballot Centers designated in the Administrative Governor’s decision issued in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph (A) of this Article, and in any subsequent amendment thereof, shall be endorsed as valid in any general parliamentary elections or by-elections conducted at any time subsequent to the publication of such decision or amendments thereof as the case may be, provided that such Electoral Sub- districts and Ballot Centers be published again when general elections or by-elections are held.
   

1. Supervision of each Polling Center shall be the responsibility of a Balloting Panel, comprised of Government employees appointed by the Administrative Governor, who shall also appoint as Chairman one of them whose grade is not lower than Grade Seven. Furthermore, the Administrative Governor may appoint other employees to assist the Panel in carrying out its tasks; but, no Government employee related up to the fourth degree to one of the candidates in the Constituency may be appointed in the Balloting Panel.
   
2. Before the beginning of the voting, the Chairman and the two members of the Balloting Panel shall take an oath before the Central Committee of the Constituency to perform their task with honesty, integrity and complete impartiality.
   
3. If the members of the Balloting Panel, or its Chairman, or either of its two members are absent, the Administrative Governor shall immediately appoint another Balloting Panel or a replacement for its absent Chairman or member, as the case may be.

1. Voting shall be carried out on papers on which the phrase “Ministry of the Interior” is printed, and are stamped with the seal of the Constituency and signed on the back by the Chairman of the Balloting Panel.
   
2. Before beginning the ballot, the Balloting Panel shall ascertain the number of papers it has received. If the number is less than the required number, the Committee Chairman shall immediately request the Administrative Governor to complement the shortage of papers.

1. Ballot boxes shall be constructed in a unified form approved by the Minister of the Interior and every Ballot Box shall have three different locks and one slot large enough for only one Ballot Paper.
   
2. Before the voting, the Chairman of the Ballot Committee shall open the Ballot Box in the presence of the present candidates or their delegates to ascertain that the box is empty. He shall then close the box with the three locks; he and each of the two Balloting Panel members shall keep one of the three keys. He also shall minute the proceedings in a record to be signed by the Committee, a well as those present who may with to sign it.

1. The voter shall appear before the Ballot Panel at the Polling Center where his name is registered in the Electoral List of that Center. After the Committee Chairman has ascertained that the Elector’s name is registered in that List and verified the Elector’s identity in accordance with his Personal Election Card, he shall enter a sign in the Elector’s entry in the List indicating that the Elector has come to vote and hands him a Ballot Paper which he has signed and asks him to go to the booth to exercise his right to vote. No one shall be permitted to vote unless he produces his Personal Election Card to the Balloting Panel.
   
2. The voter shall write the names of the candidates he wishes to elect on the Ballot Paper given to him by the Chairman of the Balloting Paper and shall return to the Ballot Box to deposit the Ballot Paper therein. An illiterate voter may ask the Chairman of the Balloting Panel to write the names of the Candidates the Elector wishes to elect; after having written down the names, the Chairman shall read the names out within earshot of the Balloting Panel.