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To prepare for your voter registration, as well as for your own checklist, you might find the following steps useful:

  • Sketch out a Family Tree to simplify your voter registration process. Click here for a sample Family Tree to help you get started.
  • Then add in your ancestral village/town, for your ancestors, as well as your chosen town/village for registration.
  • Then list all the documents you have that will help prove: your name, your link to ancestral town and people who can vouch for you.

See also CEC-Palestine for a list of documents needed for registration.

Click here to find your ancestral town and the corresponding electoral district.


If I am a refugee living in a camp in Shatila, and my family is originally from Acre, what would I then need to do in order to participate in elections?

You would go along to your newly setup voter registration office in Shatila camp;

You would show what identification papers you have, explaining your ancestral town/village is Acre, be registered, and receive your voter registration card, showing your town/village as Acre;

On election day, you would go to the voter polling station in Shatila camp and present your voter registration card carrying your name and Acre;

You would go to a desk, receive a ballot paper for Acre electoral district, tick your candidate - for Acre electoral district - and also tick your party of choice in a private polling booth;

Then you would finally place your ballot paper in a ballot box;

Local and international observers would be present during the whole process, ensuring free and fair elections according to Palestinian electoral law (article 113).


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Created: Feb 24, 2008; Last modified: Mar 23, 2008