3. Regarding municipal affairs, the provisions of Articles No. (22) and (23) of Decree-Law No. (3) of 2002 regarding the System for Electing Members of Municipal Councils, as amended, have the same implications as the provisions regulating the election process of the members of the Council of Representatives. Indicator: Does the polling and counting committee verify the identity of the voter? 4. Through field monitoring of the counting and polling centers by the NIHR’s team during the first round and the run-off round of the elections of the members of the Council of Representatives and municipal councils, it was observed that the organizing party (examiners) checked and verified the voters’ identities in all the centers by requesting them to present their passports and identity cards or any other officially recognized document, such as the elections cards issued by the Ministry of the Interior to holders of lost, damaged, retained or procedurally deposited passports to another party. Indicator: Does the polling and counting committee verify the identity of veiled women? 5. It was evident for the NIHR’s monitoring team that although the organizing party had pre-checked women wearing a niqab (veil) to confirm her identity, the identity matching process in most of the polling stations fell 69