2024-05-06 17:32:47
Nezahualcoyotl.-Lilia, accused of kidnappingwas one of the 86 women in preventive prison who voted this morning in the criminal Neza Bordo to choose for the first time Republic President.
“I think it is very good that they take us into account because we are part of the population, even though we are in a legal process, I think it is necessary for us to have a voice and vote because we are choosing who makes our laws,” he said.
This morning early voting for president of Mexico began in four penitentiary centers state: Nezahualcóyotl, Texcoco, Tenancingo and Jilotepec and in the federal Altiplano, where also for the first time the inmates who have not yet been sentenced will vote for the head of the Executive.
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For the first time, people deprived of their liberty from different prisons will vote to elect the next president of Mexico. Photo: Emilio Fernández
Joaquín Rubio Sánchez, executive member of the National Electoral Institute (INE) of the State of Mexico, commented that there will be 4,949 people deprived of their liberty out of the 19 state prisons those who cast their vote starting this Monday and 118 in the Altiplano to add 5 thousand 67.
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In the Neza-Bordo prison, the first to cast their vote were the women who, dressed in their royal blue uniforms, lined up to go to the 12 boxes that were installed in the penitentiary center, where they were attended to by INE personnel.
After the inmates voted, the men, also dressed in the royal blue uniform, left their bedrooms to go to the box that corresponded to them, according to the initial of their paternal surname.
Men in wheelchairs or with a disability were the first to vote, followed by the rest of the population who have not yet received a sentence.
For the first time, people deprived of their liberty from different prisons will vote to elect the next president of Mexico. Photo: Emilio Fernández
The Local Board of the INE decided to establish 81 voting stations, each one will have two Institute officials, a political party representative and an electoral observer with the exception of the maximum security prison “Altiplano”, where there will only be access for personnel. of the INE.
The electoral authorities announced that voting in prisons will be from May 6 to 13.
Tomorrow it will continue in Chalco, Ixtlahuaca, Lerma and Neza Norte.
The votes cast in the prisons of the State of Mexico will be kept in sealed envelopes and on Sunday, June 2, they will be opened at the electoral boards to be counted.
“The only thing we are going to do here is that people are going to vote and the ballots will be deposited in a postcard-type envelope, half a letter size that will be sealed to later be deposited in another independent envelope that is also sealed, and then The scrutiny and counting exercise would be carried out until the day of election day, which is June 2, at the headquarters that is within the jurisdiction of this penitentiary center, which is the Executive District Board 29 of the INE located in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl,” he explained. Mario Delgado López, executive member of district board 25 with headquarters in Chimalhuacán.
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