Egypt's High Elections Commission will completely supervise parliamentary elections and will draft voter lists based on ID card information, said Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of the commission.
The commission's meeting in Heliopolis Monday lasted late into the night.
Ibrahim told reporters after the meeting that voters will cast their ballots in the districts where they live, which are written on their National IDs. During the March referendum, voters were allowed to cast ballots at any polling station.
He also said voter lists will be drafted according to information from the ministries of Interior, Administrative Development and Communication, and Information Technology.
Parliamentary elections set for November will be different from previous elections, Ibrahim said, because they will include a combination of a candidate-based, winner-take-all system and a list-based system.
The new lists will not include the deceased or criminals, he said. Former President Hosni Mubarak's administration was often accused of including them to rig election results.
Observers say electoral registers under Mubarak also included the names of expatriates, who at the time were ineligible to vote, as well as the deceased.
It was widely believed that ballots were cast under phantom voters in favor of the now-disbanded National Democratic Party.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
