AMMAN — The
Jordan Bar Association’s (JBA) election monitoring team issued its second
report of the day Tuesday afternoon, which included observations received by
the JBA’s operations room on the progress of the election process, as reported
by Ammannet.
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The report included 24 observations received from
the JBA’s team consisting of 1,027 observers distributed over the various
governorates of the Kingdom.
The report praised the
Independent Election Commission’s (IEC) response for receiving and responding to the JBA’s
observations.
The report made notice of the cooperation of public
security servicemen with the elderly and people with disabilities. It pointed
out that a decision was issued by the IEC to enable the JBA’s oversight team to
continue using cell phones.
It added that it was observed in many centers that
the polling committees attend to the elderly and the disabled, enable them to
vote in the presence of delegates and observers, and place ballots in the
designated box and in front of everyone.
The observations made in the report also included
cases of vote selling, attempts to influence voters inside the polling stations
by representatives of candidates, and photographing ballot papers in full view
of the committee.
The report said that it was noted in some centers
that persons assigned to reveal the face of veiled women failed to do so, and
it was noted that passports and health insurance cards were used as proof of
identity.
The report also pointed to cases where the internet
and electric power were cut off for some time at two polling centers, although
it did not affect voting.
Also, the report pointed to cases where people used civil
status IDs that belonged to others to vote. It was also observed in some
centers that a number of voters placed insulating materials on their index
finger in order to remove ink traces immediately.
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