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A controversial situation occurred in a polling station in La Serena in the midst of the votes for the plebiscite.
The UDI deputy Juan Manuel Fuenzalida, at the time he was casting his vote, photographed the ballot and uploaded it to his Instagram account. However, later, the photo was downloaded from the social network.
According to Law 18,700 on popular elections and ballots, taking a photo of the vote is illegal and can be considered as bribery.
According to the regulations, presumes that a voter who records their preference, as in a photo, could be receiving money to vote in a certain way.
According to the Servel, the regulations “It presumes that taking a photo of the vote is bribery, since this would be the means to prove that the option sold was actually voted on.
Later, the parliamentarian, a lawyer by profession and who was mayor of the Coquimbo Region from 2013 to 2014, referred to the incident and said: ballot. What the law punishes is taking a photo to vote, that is, when you mark the preference. That is a big difference between what is being disseminated and what the law actually says ”.
“Second, there is neither bribery, because the vote is not marked, nor is there induction, publicity or proselytism, because the vote is not marked.”, He assured.
“The only thing here is that a photo was uploaded that we download it only for everything it has generated, but we wanted to confirm that people have to participate in this process, “he added.
On the other hand, a similar situation was experienced in San Pedro de la Paz, Biobío Region, where a woman was arrested and caught taking a photo of the vote. She claimed to have taken a selfie.
