Voters can cast ballot away from main residence
Interim President Adly Mansour issued a decree Monday amending the Political Rights Law to allow voters to cast their ballot in any governorate, reported the state-owned news portal Egynews.
Ehab Badawy, spokesperson for the presidency, says the amendment aims to facilitate the voting process for citizens in the upcoming referendum on the constitution, set for January 14 and 15.
Mansour’s decree applies to Law 73 of year 1956, which regulates political rights. The amendment allows citizens to vote in governorates outside their official constituency of residence.
Many voters live outside their registered constituency and have had to travel in past elections to cast ballots.
A clause was added to Article 32 of the Political Participation Law, stipulating that in referendums voters can cast their ballots in a governorate different from the one listed on the national ID card
The High Elections Commission will draw up the rules for these exceptional cases, and the judge supervising each polling station will be required to record the information from the national ID in a separate voters’ list.
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