Egypt’s National Elections Authority (NEA) announced in a press conference on Tuesday that voting for the 2024 Presidential Elections ended yesterday evening, and the vote counting starts after the end of a 3 day-voting period.
The Executive Director of the NEA, Ahmed Bendari, said the vote-counting process took place at all the polling stations that closed at 9 p.m.
Referring to the e-voting experiences in other countries, Bendari highlighted the rising doubts about electronic voting, especially in significant elections concerning the presidency or referendums that impact state policies.
Candidates running for the presidency include incumbent President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, who is running for a third term in office; Farid Zahran, the leftist opposition Social Democratic Party candidate, Abdel-Sanad Yamama, representing the Wafd party, and Hazem Omar, the candidate from the People’s Republican Party.
