We may not have an electoral law yet but our elections will happen regardless. And despite many of us saying that we won’t vote now, come June (or July if there’s a slight delay), we will all be heading to the polls to cast our votes.
The ministry of interior affairs has just published the lists of the 2013 elections eligible voters (لوائح الشطب ) and speaking from experience, it’s always better to check if your name is there or if there’s any mistake in advance in order to avoid any surprises come election day.
1 – Go to the website (here). It doesn’t support firefox so make sure you’re using Safari or Chrome or – God forbid – Internet Explorer.
2 – Go to the “voters list” section (القوائم الإنتخابية) and choose your mohafazat.
3 – Next, choose your district. In my case, it’s Batroun.
4 – Choose your village. Ebrine, in my case.
5 – Choose your gender and sect.
The list corresponding to the sect, gender and town you chose will then be made available. If you are an expat who registered at an embassy, your name will have a remark indicating that you have chosen to vote abroad:
If you’re not an expat, locate your name and make sure it doesn’t have any mistakes in your birthdate, father’s name, mother’s name or even your own name:
I personally had a problem with my mother’s name on the list which missed one dot, making her name totally different. I spoke to the mokhtar about it but he dismissed it as irrelevant and didn’t fix it. Remembering a story when a friend of mine was not allowed to vote by some political observers because his mother’s name was wrong on the list, I didn’t let it go and while giving fingerprints for my new ID at my district’s Serail, I asked to have my mother’s name fixed and it was.
Don’t worry, fixing anything wrong with your registration is not a hassle. Just have some form of identification with you, an ID or a recent ikhraj eid, and head to your nearest “ma2mour l noufous” and they’ll be more than glad to sort things out.
As an example, a relative whose name appears on the list for the first time this year has her mother’s name all wrong. If she hadn’t checked the list, she wouldn’t have known that and she would have been not allowed to vote come election day. Another friend, who’s my age, doesn’t even have his name registered yet. Seeing as the lists are readily available online till March, it is our duty to make sure that human errors do not keep us from voting.
My name is not there, wtf!
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Don’t panic 😛
As I said, head out to the nearest ma2mour l nfous with a valid ID and let them know it’s not. Check out your mekhtar first though, just in case he ends up cooperative.
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Hehe ana maronite, msajjline seryen catholik (comme ma mere)
Fi mechwar 3al daweyir 😛
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3al alile ba3dak bnafs l din 😛
Someone in my hometown who appears on the list for the first time was registered as Sunni. His brother is Maronite. :p
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hahahaha genius
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Heida 3ada 3an my mom Jinane yalli kenet Hanane w my cousin’s mom “Gloria” who became “Claudia” – I think they have a thing against mothers.
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And y is it unacceptable that ur town has Sunnis ?
Shame on u and ur sectarian mentality.
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It’s BEYOND OBVIOUSLY SARCASTIC. How about you take a chill pill?
I can recommend lexotanil and xanax. If you need a doctor’s prescription, I can ask my Sunni doctor friends to write one for you.
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LOL seriously??
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Sadde2 – I shouldn’t be surprised at some people’s reactions to things after all this time writing on this blog but I can’t help it.
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People are waaaay too easily offended these days.
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Yup l wa7ad battal fi yemza7 men doun ma 7ada ya3mel panic.
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