voters’ lists, and consequently cannot cast their ballots, and asked them not to go to the election centers. At first glance, the SMS appeared real, as if the official authorities concerned have issued it. 17. Consequently, the Supreme Committee for the General Supervision of the Soundness of Elections has quickly considered these messages incorrect and fake, and that it would deal with those, who have sent them, according to legal procedures. The Committee sent SMS messages calling for ignoring any suspicious messages on boycotting the elections, and urging all voters to participate in the electoral process. The General Directorate of Anti-Corruption and Economic and Electronic Security in the Ministry of Interior issued a statement that a number of telephone numbers used in broadcasting fabricated messages about deleting the names of citizens from election lists were detected and monitored. 18. The statement pointed out that search and detection has led to the identification of those behind these messages; and that the investigations indicated that there were a number of perpetrators of such crimes within the Kingdom of Bahrain and in Iran. These perpetrators hacked a number of servers in order to carry out this operation. Legal proceedings are underway, and they were referred to the Public Prosecution. The statement added that monitoring and follow-up indicated that Iran is the source of (40000) emails aimed at affecting the electoral process negatively. 54