The National Electoral Institute reported that it is preparing to carry out a quick count for the Mandate Revocation consultation that will take place on April 10.
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The INE explained that the objective is to provide “timely, objective and reliable preliminary data within hours of the closing of the voting booths.”
For the application of the quick count, the Federal Electoral Registry Commission unanimously approved to propose to the General Council to carry out the exercise of information of results prior to the computation of all of the acts of the Revocation of Mandate to know the percentage of participation and of each one of the possible answers.
In addition, it will be proposed that, in this count, invalid votes be counted separately from the ballots that were rendered useless due to lack of citizen participation.
This was announced by the INE in a statement, in which it indicates that this measure must be approved by the General Council.
In this regard, the councilor Carla Humphrey pointed out that this count will have no cost since it will be assumed by the same Committee that is in charge of the processes of June 5 due to the lack of resources and spending pressures that the Institute experiences for the organization. of the exercise of direct participation.
On his occasion, the president of the Commission, Ciro Murayama, proposed integrating an express indication so that the difference between ballots annulled by citizens who went to the polls and leftover ballots that were made useless by officials at the end of the day can be clearly identified. .
It should be noted that the current regulatory framework does not provide for the execution of a Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) during the Mandate Revocation exercises; therefore, the official and definitive results will not be known until the computation of the minutes is concluded.
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