Section II: The polling stage 1. Article No. (9) of Decree-Law No. (15) of 2002 regarding the Shura Council and the Council of Representatives, as amended, stipulates that: “The election of the members of the Council of Representatives shall comply with the regulations of the individual candidate elections,” while Article No. (22) of Decree-Law No. (14) of 2002 on the Exercise of Political Rights, as amended, stipulates that: “Every voter must submit to the subcommittee when casting his/her vote proof of his/her identity by presenting a passport or any approved official document. He shall put a mark on the voters’ schedule, manually or electronically, indicating that the voter has cast his vote, or any other means denoting casting his/her vote approved by the Chairman of the Supreme Committee set out in Article Eighteen of this Law”. 2. Article No. (23) of the same Law followed to stipulate that: “The referendum and election shall be held by direct secret universal ballot. The vote in the referendum or election shall be carried out by marking a prepared ballot card in the polling booth. A voter may not cast his/her vote more than once in a single referendum or election. Illiterate voters or blind voters or others with special needs who cannot themselves cast their votes on the referendum or election ballots, can cast their votes verbally before the chairman of the committee, in the presence of one of its members, who marks the voter’s choice on the ballot and inserts it in the ballot box.” 68