Iran’s Elections Headquarters said this Monday that the upcoming early presidential election will be held not via electronic voting but paper ballots.
Mohsen Eslami, the spokesperson for the Elections Headquarters of Iran, said this Monday that no electronic voting machines will be used in the upcoming presidential election. Speaking to Iran’s state media, Tasnim News Agency, Eslami noted that the late-June presidential election will be held only with paper ballots.
After the Guardian Council announced the names of the six approved candidates for the presidential race this Sunday, the election campaign period began the day after and will run until June 26, two days before the election day.
When formed, the new administration would be the 14th one following the victory of the Islamic Revolution back in 1979. The new president of Iran will assume power in late June or early July and hold office for four years. For now, First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber is in office as the acting president at the discretion of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei until the election of a new president.
It was early in May that Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian, lost their lives in a helicopter crash in Northwest of Iran close to Azerbaijan border. Under Iran’s constitution, when a president is out of office for whatever reason, be it death, resignation, impeachment, or removal, then early election for a successor must take place within 50 days.
