CHAPTER II: Observing the Parliamentary and Municipal Elections on Polling Day 1. Considering the importance of polling day, which constitutes the cornerstone of the electoral process in its entirety, and in order for the NIHR to monitor the elections objectively and professionally based on relevant international standards, it has adopted a special questionnaire prepared for this purpose consisting of more than (88) indicators, which together constitute comprehensive criteria that cover every moment of all aspects of the election day towards achieving transparent, free and fair elections. 2. This chapter will thus review the proceedings before and during the polling day up until the counting, sorting and announcement of the elections results, by reviewing the most important indicators adopted by the NIHR in the monitoring process and clarifying the practical reality related thereto in three consecutive main sections. Section I: The stage before the commencement of polling 1. Article No. (19) of Decree-Law No. (14) of 2002 regarding the Exercise of Political Rights and its amendments stipulates that: “It is the duty of the 61