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Muscat on December 25 /
This morning in the Sultanate of Oman, elections for members of municipal councils for the third term began in 11 governorates, with the participation of 731,767 male and female voters who will vote to choose 126 representatives for them.
The number of candidates for the municipal council elections, which are taking place in the current session through the electronic application “I vote”, has reached 696 candidates, including 27 women.
His Excellency Eng. Khalid bin Hilal Al Busaidi, Undersecretary of the Omani Ministry of Interior and Chairman of the Main Committee for Elections, praised the ideal start of the voting process, pointing to the positive impressions the ministry received from voters about the progress of the electoral process and the ease and smoothness of its procedures.
Al-Busaidi said that the municipal council elections are being held for the first time electronically through the “I vote” application that was recently launched by the Ministry of Interior, which is a quantum leap in keeping with technical developments in the world to facilitate the electoral process.
The Undersecretary of the Omani Ministry of Interior affirmed that the “elect” application was designed according to high security standards that guarantee complete confidentiality of the voting process and provide the highest levels of transparency and freedom in the voter’s choice of his candidate, referring at the same time to the electronic “election” application that enables anyone to follow the course of voting processes in All governorates, moment by moment, and access to all statistics and indicators related to them.
The process of voting via “elect” takes a maximum of two minutes, as the application reads the voter’s data via the “NFC” feature, while following other procedures until reaching the list of candidates in each state and choosing the desired candidate to vote for.
