Over the last few days, there has been an intense debate in the media about how expensive elections and, in particular, the National Electoral Institute (OTHER) has been severely questioned by the means that it considers necessary for the process Revocation of Mandate.
The truth is that if you want to carry out an exercise like this, it seems to me that the OTHER, he already did what he was supposed to do, just check the Article of the Electoral Counselor of said institution Carla Humphrey, published on January 14 to realize the budget adjustments made to have older means for the realization of this process.
In this sense, it seems to me that we must have high sights, look ahead and support a series of approaches that have been exposed by various analysts, academics, specialists in electoral politics and the electoral authorities themselves; I mean to review the benefits of the instrumentation of electronic voting mechanisms.
A real case that has shown a high efficiency to have one alternative from vote is the vote of the men and women mexicans residents at Foreign. Currently, it is a mechanism that has been used at the federal level for the choice of the Presidency of the Republic and senators; at the local level in various entities of the country, in accordance with their local electoral legislation, for the renewal of the head of the Executive Power or the Head of Government of Mexico City, a proportional representation deputation and even a migrant deputation.
Thus, in the choice June of last year, our nationals from 9 states were able to vote from abroad for the renewal of the local executive, namely: Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nayarit, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas.
Meanwhile, in Mexico City, for the first time there was a choice for a migrant deputation and in the case of Jalisco for a proportional representation deputation.
The interesting thing about these elections from abroad, is that the Mexicans and mexicans living outside of our country, had two options of vote: by post, which, by the way, was implemented for the first time in the choice 2006 presidential election, or the vote online; 66% of the participants decided on the latter route.
This mechanism has strengthened the political and electoral rights of citizens, which is why many of us agree that the time has come for it to be gradually incorporated into our elections registered within our country.
A scheme that could be envisaged is that citizens could choose, in the same way, two possibilities to cast their vote: online or in person at the polls on election day. If it were through the Internet, as happens in other latitudes of the world, a space could open up, perhaps, one or two weeks before to choice so that of advance form the people vote, with all the mechanisms of necessary security, from a fixed computer, laptop, tablet or mobile.
In the medium term, this mechanism would generate savings on the organization as much of elections like exercises from citizen participation, since it would not be necessary to have quick counts, with programs of preliminary electoral results, among others.
For this, the Legislature must be convinced of advancing in the modernization and in the benefits of the use of technology and, consequently, it would have to carry out the changes in the respective electoral legislation.
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