Home Affairs Ministry has recently issued a directive that bans women who wear a veil covering their faces from voting as to avoid any abuse or forgery. The same directive urges voting centres agents to make sure of the identity of women who cover their faces, concordant sources told El Khabar.| They'll have a cleaner election than East Saint Louis did last time ... |
In fact, several complaints have been sent to Home Affairs Ministry revealing that one veiled face woman voted on the behalf of several other women by exposing their ID cards. The same sources explained that “voting centres agents could not compare the identity of veiled faces women who came to vote with their ID cards.” Citizens living in conservative areas said they are upset with this directive as they are not prepared to deal with it. Some people requested to install special voting centres for women where the agents can ask women to disclose their face without any problem.