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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB
4. No. of Members in EMB 6. Voting Method
9 Manual marking of Ballot papers with electronic
vote counting machine
5. Terms of office
6 Years 7. Voting Process
Polling starts from 7 am and closes at 10 pm. When
6. EMB Members selected by a voter arrives at the polling station, the authorized
Legislature, Judiciary, President staff of the state administrative authority checks
the fingerprint of the voter and also checks the vot-
7. Chairperson’s Appointing Authority er’s data against the voter’s registration in the civil
Legislature registration national database and the electronic
copy of the voter list. If the fingerprint matches,
8. Names of Elections conducted by EMB a voter registration bill is given to the voter along
Elections of Parliament, President and referendum with a ballot paper. The voter manually marks the
ballot with black permanent marker by shadings
9. Titles of Electoral Legislation(s) the oval corresponding to candidate of choice. The
Law on Election (2015), Law on the State Great Hu- ballots are counted by Precinct Count Optical Scan
ral Election (2019) (PCOS) machines at polling stations. The scanning
(C) ELECTORAL PROCESS machine requires only 25 percent shading of ovals.
Once the voting is closed, votes are tallied auto-
1. Total Population matically and results are transmitted via mobile
Total: 3.2 Million (Feb., 2020), Male: 1.6 Million, Fe- network after being printed and signed by polling
male: 1.6 Million
officers and observers.
2. Registered Electors 8. Method of electoral Dispute resolution
Total: 2.2 Million (June, 2016)
9. Voter Education system
3. Method of voter registration
Primary method used for registration is finger print
based system and secondary method is National
Id Card based registration for emergency (system
gives additional signal and shows voters’ picture
on the screen for observers)
GEC releases election related videos and posters
on election related information to encourage vot-
ers education in election year through media out-
lets and social network channels.
4. Name of the Document viz Electoral Photo Implemented young voter programs schools and
Identity Card universities in 2019. However, do not have any pe-
Electronic Id Card
riodic activities dedicated to voter education.
5. Voter turnout in last National Elections
73.58%
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