8 Official Gazette – Issue No. 7 (bis) February 18, 2013 hinder or disturb the work of such committees, breaching the constitutional guarantees of the rights to elect and be elected. Also, only organizations authorized by HEC shall be allowed to participate in the work of the stated committees. Similarly, this applies to media, where only media outlets authorized by HEC are allowed to attend. IX: The second paragraph of Article (29) of law 73/1956 on the Exercise of Political Rights, replaced by Article (6) of the presented draft law, says: "The committee head shall hand out an open ballot paper to each voter, bearing on the back the committee's stamp and the election or referendum date. The sub-committee head may replace the committee's stamp with his signature. The voter shall take aside to one of the assigned places for balloting within the same election room. After indicating his choice on the ballot paper, the voter shall hand the ballot back folded to the head of the committee to insert it into the ballot box. Then, the voter dips his finger in indelible ink removable only after at least 24 hours, and either signs or puts their fingerprint next to their name in the voters’ attendance list." Whereas Article (28) of the same law stipulates that the election/referendum be held over two consecutive days, exceeding the durability period of the mentioned ink, this method cannot be considered as a guarantee for vote duplication. Thus, the text must be amended through authorizing HEC to set the appropriate method for achieving such purpose, pursuant to the election-related constitutional rule related that says: "One Man, One Vote". X: The second paragraph of Article (36), replaced with Article (6) of the draft law, says "As for the districts designated for closed-list system, head of the general committee shall announce the number of the present voters as well as the number of both invalid and valid votes cast for each list…" The same note stated in item 7 applies to this text with regards to the announcement of results and that it is only an announcement of the initial number of votes and shall not indicate the winning of a candidate or the loss of another since the announcement of the final result is the responsibility of HEC. XI: Article (7) of the presented draft law stipulates that a new article numbered (3-bis “L”) be added to law No. 73/1956 on the Exercise of Political Rights to be as follows: "Every Egyptian living abroad and holding a national ID card, or a valid passport and has previously held a national ID card, is eligible to vote in general elections and referenda. Every Egyptian living abroad, registered in voter database and willing to exercise the right to vote should express such desire through submitting an application to the Arab Republic of Egypt's consulate in the country where he lives, or to HEC by hand, or send it via email. Applicants shall write down the application submission date, place of residence in the country where they currently live, and their electoral domicile (i.e. the place of residence in Egypt stated on the national ID card) in the application. The application submission date shall be stated in the application registration record in diplomatic missions/consulates. Each mission/consulate shall prepare a list of voters registered therein as well as their voting domicile and post it in a visible place.