2023-07-04 04:05:00
40 years ago we recovered democracy. The vote is the tool available to citizens to validate their presence in republican life.
During these decades, different ways of knowing the voice of the people and banishing practices that impeded respect for that will were established.
The entry of technology into daily life also implied its presence in the most important event in the democratic life of the peoples: the electoral act.
Córdoba keeps in his memory an event in the 2007 electoral process, when a strange event, not yet satisfactorily explained, generated a painful institutional doubt.
We have reached June 25, 2023. The Judiciary – for the purposes of the electoral act – has entered into a contract, subject to public law, to actively provide, and simultaneously with the closing of the minutes, the partial results. For this, technological tools would be used.
This is when the situation generated by the failure of the contracted system acquires a relevance of great significance, since an attempt was made to continuously provide the public with partial results as each piece of information became known. The system or modality of providing the data is called Turing.
The purpose pursued and for which the contract was made did not occur. For hours, the count that the contractor company had to do was stopped. Technical reasons were adduced.
It can be said that, ultimately, the paper support will be the one that provides the tools to have the final data and that they are reliable.
What is striking is that, simultaneously, the Electoral Board went out to the media. Given such factual seriousness, the magistrates did not provide the specific reasons for what was happening. Just an imprecise generalization. The seriousness of the fact would have warranted the issuance of a written instrument. It was not done.
Regarding the contracted company, it can be affirmed that if the purpose of the contract was to provide the results simultaneously, as they were uploaded to the system, the purpose was not fulfilled. Given the characteristics of the agreement, perhaps we are facing a serious fact.
In this context, and with the data that is known by the press, it would be incontestable to conclude that the contracting company would have breached the contract.
In this case – and if the technical fault is unjustified, a matter subject to proof – it would be appropriate, in addition to suspending any payment, to also make the contract compliance guarantees effective.
By being awarded the benefit, a company must guarantee with economic tools that it will fulfill the contract. If you do not do so, you must be liable for the damages caused and without prejudice to sanctioning your participation in similar events in the future, which refer to the temporary exclusion from the list of contractor companies.
We Cordovans deserve reliable explanations.
* Citizen
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