Findings regarding the Voting Procedure Our independent observers observed the voting process at 955 ballot boxes in 377 POs where they were not hindered. The form used in observing the voting process included questions about the gender distribution of the chairperson and ballot box committee members, whether any authorised persons were present at the ballot boxes, whether there was any intervention at the ballot boxes, whether the legal procedures for elections were followed, any official complaints, whether special procedures applying to physically disabled, blind, hearing-impaired or illiterate voters were followed and whether voters were subject to discrimination. Gender Distribution in Ballot Box Committees An answer was given to the question regarding the gender of the Ballot Committee Chairperson is 914 forms. According to the data, 747 Ballot Box Committee chairpersons were men and 167 were women in the places observes. The observation forms also asked the gender distribution of the Ballot Box Committee members. Although there are a high number of observers who did not answer this question, it is understood from the answers that there Gender of Committee were Chairperson FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE 1-2 WOMEN 167 17.5 MEN 747 78.2 Total 914 95.7 MISSING 41 4.3 Total 955 100.0 WOMEN MEMBERS FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE 0 189 19.8 1 306 32.0 2 212 22.2 3 84 8.8 4 42 4.4 5 4 .4 6 3 .3 7 1 .1 Total 841 88.1 MISSING 114 11.9 Total 955 100.0 women in most ballot box committees. In 189 of the observed ballot box committees, there were no women members. MALE MEMBERS FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE In 23 ballot box committees, all members were men while there were 3-4 or 5 male members in many committees. 0 2 ,2 1 21 2,2 2 125 13,1 3 191 20,0 4 256 26,8 5 199 20,8 6 92 9,6 7 23 2,4 Total 909 95,2 MISSING 46 4,8 Total 955 100,0