Security forces foil attempt to invalidate voting box in Nozha district

CAIRO – 22 April 2019: Security forces succeeded to foil an attempt to invalidate a voting box on Monday in Nabil al-Wakad School located in Nozha district, Cairo.

It was explained in an official statement that the attempt took place by a 45-year old, unemployed man. During casting his ballot, he exchanged the voting paper with another unofficial paper, which would legally invalidate the whole box.

Spokesperson of the National Elections Authority (NEA) Mahmoud el-Sherif noted to the incident during a press conference, Wondering about the reason of his attempt ‘to invalidate the voting processes'.

The man will be facing charges of trying to invalidate a voting box and destabilizing the voting process on constitutional amendments.

Long queues of voters have been witnessed outside polling stations since the early hours of Monday, the third and last day of the referendum on the constitutional amendments.

High turnout of elderly, youth and women voters was recorded during the past two days.

The referendum on constitutional amendments is held on April 20-22 domestically, and April 19-21 abroad. A total of 61 million eligible voters were called for casting their ballots in the public referendum on the constitutional amendments.

The voting process has concluded abroad on Sunday and embassies started the voting count procedures.