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. 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. 59