14. It was observed that there were no incidents in which voters were prevented from casting their votes in the electoral process, except for very few cases where the voters’ names were not registered in the voters’ lists. The said voters were asked to head to the supervisory centers in their governorates. The NIHR hopes that the Supreme Committee for the General Supervision of the Soundness of Elections pays more attention to increase the awareness of the voters on the need to make sure that their names are registered on the voters’ lists during the period prescribed by the Law, to avoid being prevented from voting on polling day. In addition, raise the voters’ awareness on resorting to the supervisory centers in their governorate if their names are not registered in the voters’ lists on polling day. The non-registered voters did not know about this procedure only until they headed to the public or provincial polling centers, thus, they went through the trouble of reaching those centers and had to wait there for a while. 15. Moreover, the NIHR’s monitoring team did not observe any cases where non-voters were allowed to enter the polling and counting halls, except for some children accompanying their parents. In addition, voters sometimes gave their children the ballot paper to insert it in the ballot box under the direct watch of the voter and the polling and counting committee. 16. The NIHR’s monitoring team did not observe any incidents where the members of the polling and counting committee were exposed to harassment by the candidates or voters, except for one case where a candidate was engaged in an altercation with the members of the polling and counting committee due to overcrowding. 17. In connection with the polling process, it was noted that there were a number of illiterate voters during the first round and the run-off of the parliamentary and municipal elections. In such cases, the organizers of the center issue the ballot paper to the illiterate voter and directly instruct him/ her to go to the head of the polling and counting center. The latter reads the names of the candidates to the illiterate voter, showing them their pictures so that the voter can choose freely and secretly in this regard. This procedure is in agreement with the prescribed legal rules. 18. With regard to the special needs categories of persons with disabilities and the elderly invalids, the NIHR’s monitoring team observed that the organizers of the polling and counting centers assisted them and facilitated their procedures as of entering the centers until they exited. However, there was no designated queue (line) for those people in any of the centers that the NIHR has monitored. Nevertheless, this shortcoming did not affect the smooth running of the voting process for them, noting that all the electoral centers were, from a technical standpoint, prepared to accommodate the participation of these groups. 19. In a related context, the organizers of the polling and counting centers did not allow the persons accompanying those with disabilities to enter the polling hall with them during the voting process. The organizers carried out this process themselves, especially in the cases where the accompanying person is a non-eligible voter, such as domestic workers. In the cases where the person with disability cannot choose the candidate because of his/her disability, the head of the center is the authorized person to handles these cases in accordance with the provisions of the law. 85