FNC Elections Scheduled

The National Election Commission (NEC), an independent agency of the UAE goverment has released the schedule for the election cycle of the Federal National Council (FNC) this year, with the actual elections taking place on September 24th.
Surprisingly, the election process of the FNC is similar to that of the U.S. The biggest similarity is that, like the U.S., there is an Electoral College that actually votes for the representatives, but in the UAE, each individual emirate has its own Electoral College, and each is treated as a seperate entity.
The NEC is in charge of ensuring the legitimacy of the election, and also looking into any potential incidents of voter fraud. In fact the NEC is in charge of running the entire election process, including notifying the members of the respective Electoral Colleges of any additions or withdrawls to the candidate lists.