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At the time of the elections in Bolivia, the electoral body announced on Saturday the suspension of the rapid system for the dissemination of preliminary voting results, arguing that it would not provide sufficient certainty in relation to official data.
“When there is no certainty that there will be a sufficient volume of information for the result to be very similar to that of the official results, it is preferable to dispense with the system for disseminating preliminary results,” explained the President of the Supreme Court Electoral, Salvador Romero, at a press conference.
In this way, the preliminary results of the elections will not be known as quickly on Sunday night, as the TSE had promised, and will go directly to the slower official count.
“On Sunday night we will not have the official and final result. This is going to take us a few additional hours and it is important that citizens have patience because the result will be reliable, (although) a little slower, ”Romero noted.
He justified that “the country cannot risk having results that do not generate certainty” and that with the decision taken at the last minute, the public “will have a result without an iota of doubts”, something essential in such a polarized context.
Although the legal deadline for the dissemination of official data is five days, Romero said that the regional electoral courts were instructed to redouble their efforts to receive as many records as possible in order to have the largest possible volume of official data as soon as possible.
Citizens may directly follow the official count through the official website of the electoral body.
Romero indicated that the decision was communicated to the political parties and international observer missions that arrived in the country.
He explained that within the framework of transparency, the public counting of votes, the photographing of the voting records and that the parties have access to copies of them will be allowed.
All this will allow citizens and parties to verify that the computer system has the same results from the voting tables, he stressed.
The favorite candidates are leftist Luis Arce, from the party of former president Evo Morales, and former centrist president Carlos Mesa.
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