Hoaxes related to the electoral process are multiplying as July 28, the date of the presidential election, approaches, so the teams of the Venezuelan Observatory of Fake News, Cotejo.info and Medianálisis interviewed the substitute rector of the CNE, Ana Julia Childto know what are the myths and realities that circulate.
In a broadcast through the X accounts, formerly Twitter, of the Venezuelan Observatory of Fake News and Cotejo.info, the director of Medianálisis, Andrés Cañizález, spoke with Niño, who is also a professor at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV).
At the meeting it was made clear that voting is secret and that the system guarantees the reliability of the results.
The first question raised by Cañizalez has to do with what document one must bring to exercise the right to vote and whether Venezuelan citizens who vote abroad must come with a passport and ID card.
Niño said that in both cases, only the identity card is needed. From the Constitution to the law, there are legitimate checkpoints. You have to register in the Electoral Registry and to do so, according to the law, you must have an identity card. In the case of voting abroad, the identity card must also be presented.
Cañizalez asked if it is possible to vote with an expired ID and Niño assured that it is It is perfectly legitimate to go to vote with an expired identity card.
Later, the issue of the dress code for voting on July 28 was raised, as there are reports circulating on various social networks that it is supposedly prohibited for anyone to vote in Bermuda shorts.
The boy replied that The National Electoral Council (CNE) has not established any dress code for going to vote, “that is not stipulated anywhere. For example, it is not prohibited to go to vote in Bermuda shorts.
However, he called on people not to fall into provocations and to avoid the possibility that “in spite” of some official, a citizen may be prevented from voting for going to the polling station in clothing that is considered inappropriate.
During the meeting, Cañizalez asked: If a citizen marks the name of a candidate, but when he receives the ballot another name appears, is there a possibility of expressing that what he says is not his will?
“We have an automated system that many adults are a little afraid of, and anything that is touched on the screen is registered by the machine as a selection being made.”
Niño added that to vote, one has three minutes in front of the machine, once it is activated.
“Before pressing the vote button, you have to make sure that the candidate of your choice has been selected. You have to be calm, Study the ballot, where your choice is, press it and it will take you to another page and that is where you will press the vote button. If you realized that you made a wrong choice, you can go back, there is a little arrow, you can go back and correct the selection you made. If you don’t go back and the three minutes pass, the machine will understand that that was the selection you made.”
The other scenario, which Niño proposed, “is that you did not make any selection and the three minutes pass, that gets stuck and a null vote comes out. That is why I say that we should go calmly, let us review the ballot, it is simple because it is only one position that is being elected.”
Niño also added that he has studied the issue of electoral integrity and that the hoaxes that are spread are very similar in Latin America. “And that is one, which is that: I pressed an option and when they gave me the ballot it was not what I wanted and it is a tiny percentage and it is almost always a mistake by the voter.”
According to Venezuelan law, does tearing up a ballot constitute an electoral crime? Niño says that “at least it is a misdemeanor and some lawyers say it is a way of hindering the electoral process” and it also carries a criminal penalty.
Furthermore, this type of protest can happen and if a person eats his or her vote, “it must be recorded because if that box is drawn, there will be no match between the electronic votes and those in the safekeeping box.”
When Niño was asked if taking a photo of the ballot is a crime, she replied that it is an offence and a threat to the secrecy of the vote. “What has happened is that people have been coerced by some bosses to leave a record of that vote and that is an irregularity.”
Regarding assisted voting, Niño explained that the voting table manual states that assisted voting is in the law, but that a citizen can assist only one person; there cannot be an assistant designated for several voters.
It was explained that “assisted voting is permitted for the elderly or for citizens with some type of disability.” During the meeting, the possibility of switching to manual voting and the security of the system were also discussed.
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2024-07-28 04:59:02
