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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB

2. Website Address at 6 pm but in presidential elections (2014), open-
www.isie.tn ing time was curtailed to 8 am so that polling staff
had enough time to organize election materials
3. Nature of EMB and station.
Independent
One polling staff is assigned at the door to handle
4. No. of Members in EMB queue, second polling staff is assigned task of voter
9
verification and taking voters’ on electoral register
5. Terms of office and third staff sits at the adjacent desk to stamp
6 Years and handover the ballots to voters. Voters then
mark ballots in secret and drop them in ballot boxes.
6. EMB Members selected by
Legislature 8. Voter Education system for different category of
voters Best Practices
7. Chairperson’s Appointing Authority By Posters, In 2018, Tunisia’s Independent High
Legislature Authority for Elections (ISIE) and the International
Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) created a
8. Names of Elections conducted by EMB
Presidential, Legislative, Partial Municipal Elections poster to assist voters with disabilties during elec-
tions.
9. Names of the Other Bodies Related with the
Electoral Process in the country at National Level 9. Pictures of Electoral Processes/Voter Education
with names of the Heads
No
10. Titles of Electoral Legislation(s)
Law N ° 2012-23 of December 20, 2012
(B) ELECTORAL PROCESS

1. Total Population
Total: 11,818,619

2. Registered Electors
Total: 5,285,136 (Oct., 2014)

3. Method of voter registration
Manual

4. Name of the Document viz Electoral Photo
Identity Card
Voter Id Card

5. Voter turnout in last National Elections
75.14%

6. Voting Method
Manual marking of Ballots In 2018, Tunisia’s Independent High Authority for Elec-
tions (ISIE) and the International Foundation for Elector-
7. Voting Process al Systems (IFES) created a poster to assist voters with
There is a provision for voters that they can choose disabilties during elections. The poster was produced in
a desired polling station at the time of voter regis- Arabic and includes step-by-step instructions on the vot-
tration. Usually election starts from 7 am and ends ing process for Tunisian voters who use sign language.

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