Elections 2021: INE announces the use of 100 electronic ballot boxes in Jalisco and Coahuila

On the afternoon of this Thursday, February 4 National electoral institute (INE) approved that the states of Coahuila and Jalisco be part of the pilot program that will use 100 electronic ballot boxes for the next elections of 6 June 2021.

“With electronic voting on national territory Internet is not used, but it is approx technological devices that allow citizens to vote personally. Additionally, a voting witness is printed and the right to vote remains free and secret.Reads a statement from the Mexican election agency.

The same, Ciro Murayama, Electoral Council member of the OTHERS, announced in an interview with Leonardo Curzio that these entities were chosen because they were territories Before 2014, the electronic voting procedure was unified in general law.

“It is also possible, voting by electronic ballot box and that this can serve as evidence, as an experience, just in case one day We decided to leave our electoral Baroque style behind and move on to models with electronic voting, ”he said.

One of the main advantages is that The results of the vote can be announced a few hours after the end of election day, instead of waiting several days, plus vote counting, human error or any electoral fraud can be avoided.

In addition, Murayama added that this is not a total decision, however just a test, as 100 electronic ballot boxes will be used from the more than 163,000 polling stations across the country, which represents less than one percent.

“It will help us show that it is an equally reliable choice. People print testimonials for every vote and people see the feeling of their voice being printed and so it can be later visually and physically verified that the result of the ballot box matches that of the citizens, ”said Murayama.

The Electoral Council stressed that electronic ballot boxes they respect the free and secret ballot, since the printed receipt that comes out of the machines is a kind of ticket that falls into a glass urn where, at the end of the voting period, each ticket can be verified.

He remembered that too This pilot system has already been used in the Hidalgo and Coahuila election process in 2020. In those elections 96 urns were used and, according to Murayama, “there was no problem.” Subsequently, a satisfaction survey was conducted true 93% of the responses indicated that it seemed an easy method to cast the vote.

Finally, he emphasized that the majority of political parties are in favor of this electronic procedure, but what Morena is not completely convinced in this way of voting.

In this sense, the senator for Morena, Bertha Caraveo, criticized the INE for making this decision for the Elections 2021. Through social networks, he questioned Ciro Murayama and Lorenzo Córdova for supposedly assume “legislative functions that do not correspond to them”.

In response, Murayama recalled the test taken in 2020, and Caraveo noted the INE does not legislateBut it has the power to run tests so that lawmakers can make decisions based on real evidence, not bias.

Later, that one too founder of Morena, is noted the INE cannot issue general standardsTherefore, Murayama stressed that there will be only 100 ballot boxes of the more than 160,000 that will be in Mexico, in addition to each vote being verified.

“In each case I celebrate the attention you pay to the topicSenator, that will help the exercise @INEMexico promotes to advance the use of technologies are more known. Regards. Murayama ended.

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