How is the national electoral register created?
Lebanon
Law No. 25/2008 (parliamentary elections law)
Article 25
“A voters’ roll shall be permanent. However, they shall be revised periodically in accordance with the provisions of the present law.”
Article 26
“The General Directorate of Personal Status shall prepare, for each electoral district, automated voters’ rolls including the voters’ names according to the personal status records. The said rolls shall include the names of all voters registered in the electoral district from at least one year as of the date of revision of the voters’ rolls, i.e. as of the 5th of December of every year.”
Article32
“The Directorate-General of Personal Status shall edit the voters’ rolls according to the documents referred to it as mentioned in previous articles, upon reviewing them before February 1st of each year.
Each roll shall include a special space reserved to note down the reasons of editing and operations of record transfer from one roll to another. In the event of transfer, mentioning the place of record, the register number and the crossing-off date is mandatory.” http://www.elections.gov.lb/Parliamentary/Voters-Corner/Voter-Registration-Procedure-Eligibility/Articles-from-Law-no--25-of-8-10-2008-on-Voters-Re.aspx
IFES Lebanon Briefing Paper February 2009
“The voter register is updated annually”. (…)
How is the Voter Register compiled?
Voter registration in Lebanon is a passive system administered by the Personal Status Directorate of the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities (MoIM). The register is automatically compiled from the civil status records held at 47 regional registration offices; these maintain a register of all births, marriages, deaths and other changes to a citizen’s personal status. It is traditional practice in Lebanon
that citizens are registered at the geographic location of origin of their family. Thus, many Lebanese are registered to vote in different electoral districts than in which they live.
How is the Voter Register maintained?
Lebanon has a centralised computerised voter registration database, drawn from the hand-written civil status record books held at the regional registration offices. The database is annually updated to include newly eligible voters and to remove those voters who have died or who have become ineligible to vote. This process, which also involves a cross-check to ensure that a citizen is registered in only one electoral district, was undertaken between 5 December and 5 January.
Method adopted in 2008. The General Directorate of Personal Status shall prepare, for each electoral district, automated voters’ rolls including the voters’ names according to the personal status records.
