Representatives, as amended, stipulates that, “The election of members of the House of Representatives shall be in accordance with the single election system.” Article (22) of DecreeLaw No. (14) of 2002 on the Exercise of Political Rights and its amendments, stipulates that, “Every voter shall submit to the sub-committee, when casting his vote, a proof of his/her identity by presenting a passport or any official certified document. A check is placed before the voter’s name in the voters’ list, by hand or electronically, to indicate that the voter cast his/her ballot; or any other means to indicate voting, provided it is approved by the Chairman of the Supreme Committee stipulated in Article (18) of this Law.” 2. Article (23) of the same Law followed by stipulating that, “The referendum and election shall be conducted by universal direct secret suffrage. The vote shall be made in a referendum or election by marking on the card prepared for that purpose and in the place allocated for the ballot. A voter may not cast his vote more than once in a referendum or a single election. Voters who cannot write or read, or blind, or with special needs who cannot cast their votes by themselves on the ballot card, shall vote verbally, and the chair of the committee shall mark the voter’s choice in the presence of one of the committee members on the ballot card, which shall be inserted in the ballot box.” 3. Regarding the municipal affairs, the provisions of Articles (22) and (23) of Decree-Law No. (3) of 2002 on the system of election of members of municipal councils and its amendments, bear, in substance, the same provisions governing the electoral process of the members of the House of Representatives. 4. Accordingly, the NIHR’s team monitored the polling and counting centers during the first round and the run-off of the election of the members of the House of Representatives and the Municipal Councils. It was observed that all those centers, through the organizing body (verification officers), verified the identity of the voters, by checking their passports, identity cards, or any certified official documents such as election cards issued by the Ministry of Interior to holders of lost or damaged passports, or passports procedurally preserved or confided to another party. 5. The NIHR’s monitoring team found that, although the organizers had carried out prior verification of veiled women to match their identity, the matching process in most of the electoral centers was not strictly accurate and organized, and did not take into account the required privacy of veiled women. 6. As soon as a veiled woman enters the center, she is called upon and heads toward a place dedicated for identity matching process; this place is not well prepared for such purpose in terms of its location in the center and the absence of a full-time female identity matcher to perform this process. In addition, once this process is carried out, the woman heads toward the verification officers, who sometimes, especially during peak periods, do not have a formal proof that the woman’s identity has been actually verified. Therefore, the NIHR calls for developing a clearer, more precise and seamless mechanism that secures the smooth entry of veiled women, ensures that their faces match their identity documents, and takes into account their privacy in this regard. 83