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During this Monday, and with 99.85% of the polls scrutinized, the president of the Board of Directors of the Electoral Service, Patricio Santamaría, delivered a balance on the plebiscite of this Sunday, October 25.
On the occasion, and after consultations, Santamaría referred to the participation, noting that “without a doubt we are facing the largest vote in the history of Chile, from the ‘voting’ point of view in absolute votes, and in addition to that, we also broke the barrier that has not exceeded since 2012 with a 49.2% voluntary vote ”.
“In such a way that from that point of view it is to celebrate the increase in citizen participation, especially of young people, but also of older adults who participated in this, considering that there was an important group that could not participate by provision of the health authority, precisely because they are in isolation due to COVID-19 ”, he argued.
However, Santamaría also referred to groups that cannot vote for other reasons: “There are groups in society that are excluded from participation, such as, for example, people who are deprived of liberty and who have their political rights in force where there is evidently a violation of their human rights ”.
“Also – we saw him the other day in the Chamber of Deputies – there is data that indicates that, for example, more than 100,000 mining workers that day work and cannot exercise their right to vote “, he indicated.
He also mentioned: “If you look at the registry, there are a significant number of people who are probably deceased and that we cannot eliminate as Electoral Service until we have a Law that allows us to update the register in some way, and finally, a very important number of Chileans, Chileans abroad, who in this case only 59,525 established their domicile, but the rest appear in the electoral roll of Chile, with their old addresses ”.
Figures
Regarding the validly cast votes, he pointed out that they are 7,520,528, corresponding to 99.45%. In relation to invalid votes, these correspond to 27,958, which translates into 0.37%. Regarding blank votes, these are 13,688, which corresponds to 0.18%.
“From the validly cast votes, this is excluding the null and blank ones, the preliminary results are the following: I approve option, 5,886,421 votes, corresponding to 78.27%; rejection option, 1,634,107 votes, corresponding to 21.73%, ”he said.
He also pointed out: “Regarding the question ‘what type of body should draft the new Constitution’, on a total universe of 14,796,197 voters in Chile and 59,522 abroad, and on a total of 44,913 polling stations, with A total of 44,831 polling stations counted, equal to 99.81% of the total tables set up for the 2020 national plebiscite, the votes received are: validly cast votes, 7,148,220 votes, corresponding to 94.61%; invalid votes, 283,285 votes, corresponding to 3.75%; blank votes, 123,717 votes, corresponding to 1.64%; total of the voting, 7,555,222 votes ”.
“Of the validly cast votes, this is excluding null and blank ones, the preliminary results are as follows: constitutional mixed convention option, 1,501,793 votes, corresponding to 21.01%; constitutional convention option, 5,646,427 votes, corresponding to 78.99% ”, he detailed.
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