One more thing that should be mentioned- you vote not from where you live, but from where your ancestral hometown is. So, a ton of people in the southern suburbs of Beirut drive down to villages in the south, and a lot of people in East Beirut drive to Mount Lebanon. Meanwhile, a lot of voters in Beirut actually live out in the suburbs now, and drive back in today to vote (this is also the case, incredibly, in municipal elections. so, there are lots of villages with year-round populations in the double or single digits who swell every election day).
That's interesting
