1. Various of polling station employees carrying ballot box
HEADLINE TEXT: Ballot boxes distributed for Lebanon elections
ANNOTATION: Lebanese authorities began distributing ballot boxes to polling stations around the country on Saturday, a day before parliamentary elections.
"We have received the boxes and we are going to do our work and God willing everything will be ready tomorrow."
3. Various of ballot boxes inside hall
4. Election official checking documentation of polling stations employees' data
ANNOTATION: The vote will be taking place mostly at public schools where eligible voters will go to cast their ballots in their electoral districts.
5. Various of employees carrying ballot boxes
ANNOTATION: It is the first since Lebanon's implosion started in October 2019, triggering widespread anti-government protests against a corrupt ruling class.
6. Close of hands of employee checking list with names ++PARTIALLY COVERS UPCOMING SOUNDBITE++
"The boxes are being distributed to the heads of polling stations in order to be sent to schools in order to begin the elections tomorrow morning."
8. Various of Lebanese army vehicles patrolling
ANNOTATION: Parliamentary elections are held once every four years in Lebanon and the last vote in 2018 gave majority seats to the Hezbollah group and its allies.
ANNOTATION: Little change was expected from the vote as mainstream political parties and politicians remained strong while opposition figures are fractured.
Lebanese authorities began distributing ballot boxes to polling stations around the country on Saturday, a day before parliamentary elections were to be held.
The vote will be taking place mostly at public schools where eligible voters will go to cast their ballots in their electoral districts.
The vote is the first since Lebanon's implosion started in October 2019, triggering widespread anti-government protests against a corrupt ruling class that has been in place since the country's 15-year civil war ended in 1990.
It is also the first election since the August 2020 massive explosion at Beirut's port that killed more than 200 people, injured thousands and destroyed parts of Lebanon's capital.
The blast, widely blamed on negligence, was set off by hundreds of tons of poorly stored ammonium nitrate that ignited in a port warehouse after a fire broke out at the facility.
Parliamentary elections are held once every four years in Lebanon and the last vote in 2018 gave majority seats to the Hezbollah group and its allies with 71 legislators.
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