Muscat: With the Majlis Al Shura polls around the corner, the government has announced that it will be using electronic voting machines for the first time in the country.
According to top officials at Ministry of Interior, this will ease the procedures during the poll.
The system, called ‘Sawtak’, which means ‘Your Voice’ comes with a touch screen in which all the procedures and steps of the election are detailed. “This will help the voter to smoothly cast the vote. The machine is built to suit various category of voters that include elderly and disabled people,” the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Twitter.
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