2023-11-12 17:38:30
The remanent phrase “ballots are missing”which is usually heard so many times on election days, this time he said it to Buenos Aires Electoral Justice, a week before the runoff: in effect that Court warned this Sunday the representatives of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), of Javier Milei, what “they didn’t send enough ballots” to cover the tables of that district in the now close runoff of the November 19th. According to the note, Freedom Advances (LLA) presented “their bundles of ballots with a substantially smaller amount“as expected, so if this situation is not corrected immediately, the cover the tables of the entire province.
The warning to LLA was made through Minute 33, which bears the signatures of the president of the Federal Court of Appeals of La Plata, Roberto Agustín Lemos Arias; the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Buenos Aires, Sergio Gabriel Torresand the federal judge with electoral jurisdiction in the province of Buenos Aires, Alejo Ramos Padilla.
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Likewise, the Justice recalled that “Each group must deliver a bundle of up to 350 ballots for each of the 38,074 tables to be enabled for distribution through the Argentine Post Office.” and two bundles of the same number of ballots for the ‘contingency’ system for each establishment in which up to eight voting stations will operate, and also four extra bundles in the cases of establishments in which nine or more voting stations will operate.
In the text, which was released this Sunday by the Télam agency, it is emphasized that “in the deliveries made to date, the group ‘La Libertad Avanza’ has presented its bundles with a substantially smaller number of ballots (to those 350 already mentioned), and it is highlighted that “In some bundles the amount did not even reach a quarter of the maximum amount suggested.”
In that sense, the proposal also highlighted that in many cases the number of bundles “It is not enough to cover all the tables in the municipalities either.” that are being processed for delivery to the Post Office; which forced us to take bundles from the contingency bags, or even subtract them from other municipalities for subsequent processing, in order to complete the tables.”
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In this way, the Provincial Electoral Justice denounced what it considers “a non-compliance with the requirements of Minute 31 regarding the manner of presentation of the bundles, since the group has presented them in closed cardboard boxes or in black plastic bags, that make their control and verification difficult and delayed.”
The signatory judges confirmed that the representatives of Libertad Avanza were already made aware of the issue through “the officials of this Board responsible for the reception”. While, regarding Union for the Homelandthey reported that until now No problems were noted in the number of bundles of their ballots.
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According to the Buenos Aires organization, “it is the duty of this Board to warn that such a poor delivery of ballots like the one observed so far by ‘La Libertad Avanza’, does not conform to the forecasts estimated by this Courtfor the best development of the election day.” And he added that “there is no way for the Electoral Board to send ballots to each voting station, nor for the contingency system, if these are not delivered by the participating political groups themselves. of the election, in the quantity, time and manner duly established to allow its adequate distribution”.
It should be noted that “the National State allocates and transfers specific allocation funds for said ballot printing, having been assigned on this occasion, by Provision No. 16/2023 of the National Electoral Directorate, a sum of $258,379,302.50 for each of the participating alliances“, pointed out the judges. In this sense, the Court stated that “it does not itself have ballots” from any group.
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