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The president of the Board of Directors of the Electoral Service, Patricio santamaria, confirmed that the organ works to enable early voting from the next constituent elections, who will be part of the Convention that will write the next fundamental letter.
Although Santamaría still values the high participation in the Constitutional Plebiscite on Sunday, this new system would respond to the eventual abstention in the process of mining workers, among others citizens who cannot attend a single voting day.
“The President (Sebastián Piñera) promised me and with the advice that, starting with the election of April 11, and the entire run of elections in 2021, people will be able to vote, for example, with early voting“, stated in What Remains of the Day, stating that “this allows that in those tasks where there are shifts, people can choose the possibility of voting before, having a space that one sees in the United States and other countries that today have that possibility.”
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On the other hand, the Servel also proposed that for next year’s elections joins “a mobile that allows us to think about voting at home”, as initially raised in response to the pandemic, which would affect yesterday’s Plebiscite, because “my spirit was always to involve and allow the exercise of the right to vote to all people.”
“There it is possible that, for example, with early voting and With the possibility of the mobile ballot box, people deprived of liberty and people who are in health centers can vote. So we have options that I think will go along that line, “he explained.
THE DISCARDED OPTIONS
On the other hand, Santamaría was critical of legalizing postal voting, which these days is also being questioned in the US: “there are votes that are lost, votes that do not arriveBut the important thing is that we are going to stop having exclusively face-to-face voting, which limits these very important groups of people to exercise their right to vote.
In the same way, he stated that “I’m not a friend of electronic voting” to expand participation in future elections, although it differentiated it from voting on the Internet, which is characterized by its use in consultations, and not in general elections.
In the case of electronic voting, the president of the Servel council said that “the only thing that changes is that, instead of having five citizens, and humanizing a relevant process of delegation of sovereignty, such as an election, it changes it to a machine, and the pencil of blue paste or graphite and the paper by pressing a button “
“Nowadays, electronic voting would imply at least having a computer knowledge, and also the frauds are made by thousands, because it is a matter of hacking the system – something that has happened in the last elections, without going any further in the case of Bolivia – and everything that it generates is something that shows that it is not a safe vote, “he insisted.
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