7. The NIHR’s monitoring team found that all the ballot papers were the official papers dedicated to this purpose. The ballot papers for the election of members of the House of Representatives had a red background, while those for the election of members of the municipal councils had a green background. 8. The NIHR’s monitoring team also noted that the voting process begins with the voter presenting his/her passport or election card issued by the Nationality, Passport, and Residence Affairs Directorate at the Ministry of Interior and the ID card. The verification officer at the polling and counting center then checks the voter’s right to vote, gives the voter the ballot paper, and stamps the passport or the election card indicating his/her participation in the voting process. A number of the NIHR’s monitoring team found that the stamp on the passport or the election card was being verified for each voter who had completed the ballot, before leaving the electoral center. However, in other centers, this regulatory action was not being followed. 9. In the same context, it was noticed that there were electronic devices at the exit gates of some of the polling stations that detect ballot papers, which the voters might take out from the center, since all the ballot papers contain a sensitive electronic tape that gives a signal once a paper passes through the detector. However, it was not clear to the monitoring team whether the said devices were effective or not. 10. The NIHR also noted that all the ballot papers were inserted in the ballot boxes, under the watch of the polling and counting committee. 11. The NIHR’s monitoring team noted that a number of public polling and counting centers ran out of the ballot papers allocated to one of the constituencies. The NIHR stresses the need for the chairs of the committees and their staff to continuously follow-up the ballot papers to ascertain the adequacy of the remaining ones, and ensure they do not run out of them, so as no voter misses his/ her right to vote. 12. The NIHR also monitored on one of the social media accounts, a post by one of the candidates that included a video footage of a ballot paper, which indicated that the voter chose this same candidate. This action is considered an electoral irregularity; the video footage was sent to the concerned officials of the Supreme Committee for the General Supervision of the Soundness of Elections to document this violation. 13. During the parliamentary and municipal elections for the first round and the re-run, it was observed that the candidates or their agents were present in the provincial electoral centers, in the space provided for that purpose. However, the public polling and counting centers had very slight presence of the candidates or their agents. In any case, an observer of the NIHR’s monitoring team has noticed an attempt within the electoral center boundaries to influence the choice of one voter, in the presence of a candidate. 84