INE starts early voting for prisoners and people with disabilities
- May 6, 2024
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He National Electoral Institute (INE) this Sunday began early voting for more than 34,393 people who will not be able to attend polling stations on June 2, when
He National Electoral Institute (INE) this Sunday began early voting for more than 34,393 people who will not be able to attend polling stations on June 2, when the largest election in Mexican history will take place.
The body that organizes elections in Mexico. He clarified that among these 4,002 Mexicans have some physical limitation or disability this prevents them from turning out to vote, and 30,391 people are detained without conviction.
On April 30, INE approved the final list of people in preventive prison who will vote through early voting.
Meanwhile, people who won’t be able to go to the polls on June 2 have been asking to vote this way since February, the same month they were visited at home to obtain permits.
Starting from May 6, people appointed by district councils will deliver envelopes with ballots for the election of the President of the Republic, senators and deputations to citizens’ homes.
He also explained that the ballots will be distributed differently so that each person can make his choice for the head of the capital of Mexico, governors, as well as candidates holding the posts of mayors, city councils and local deputies.
According to the third progress report of the organization early voting In the 2023-2024 electoral process, the states with the highest number of requests from Mexicans interested in participating under this method were: Mexico City, Jalisco, Veracruz, State of Mexico and Aguascalientes.
When people detained without sentenceINE noted that this would be the first time that this method would be organized to allow them to vote.
In this sense, he explained that prisoners from 216 penitentiary institutions throughout the country will take part in it.
According to the third progress report on the organization of voting for pre-trial detainees, 142 district councils approved the placement and installation of 158 counting tables and the counting of their votes.
From my side, INE guaranteed the chain storage of documentation used for early voting, “taking into account such factors as identity, original condition, conditions of collection, preservation, packaging, transmission, place and dates of permanent storage.”
“The changes that occurred in each conclusion, as well as the registration and identification of persons in contact with the documentation; as well as election security envelopes in which the ballots will be contained,” he concluded.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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