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The Senator of the Democratic Pole advanced a debate on political control in the Second Committee of the Senate in which he presented figures such as that 2.5 million people appear as voters, when they should not be.
This Monday, the Senator of the Democratic Pole Iván Cepeda advanced a debate on political control in the Second Commission on the configuration of the electoral roll and the problems in its purification. In this, he shared worrying figures about how there are more voters than people over 18 who are authorized to exercise this right.
“The electoral census does not have a logical relationship with the population reality of the country. There are more voters than qualified Colombian citizens of legal age ”, he commented, sharing the figure in relation to this. That is, according to him, there are 2.5 million who appear as voters, when they should not be. That is, they are irregular or fictitious voters.
Among other data, he shared that there are around “eight million inconsistencies detected in the electoral roll.” For example, 6,166 are not in the National Identification File (ANI) database, 38,256 are not in force in the ANI, 7′322,104 do not have data on the date of birth and 216 do not have an issue date.
These irregularities have led to finding that “there is active personnel of the Public Force included in the electoral roll who, indeed, vote, despite the constitutional and legal prohibition that exists for this population,” explains Cepeda.
On this specific case, in the 2019 elections it was recorded that 2,113 military assets voted, of the 4,956 that appear in the electoral roll.
Another case that the senator denounces is that of the Anticorruption Consultation of August 26, 2018. “It did not have a real electoral census and, according to the information we have analyzed, the threshold of that consultation was far exceeded,” said the parliamentarian . In other words, the electoral roll for that date was 36’421,026, so a threshold of 12’140,342 had to be exceeded. However, due to the poor purification that he denounces, in reality the census must have been 33′743,169, so the threshold was 11′247,723.
“With the votes obtained in the consultation, they were sufficient, exceeding the threshold, even by more than 427,000, which means that today their results must be fully valid and abide by the authorities,” he warned.
“There is no reliability on the composition and purification of the electoral roll, which can be considered ‘the master key’ of access to public power in a democracy,” concluded the debate demanding that the Registrar do the pertinent cleaning of the electoral roll and investigate these complaints to find those responsible.
