Ecuador approves repeating the legislative elections abroad in person

He National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador approved this Wednesday that the repetition of the legislative elections for voters abroad will be held on October 15 in person, the same day as the second round of the face-to-face elections.

He CNEwhich had annulled the votes of last August 20 in the special constituencies abroad due to problems registered in the system of telematic votedecided to repeat said elections after the claims received from political parties and voters.

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In a statement, the CNE reported that, after a meeting of its plenary session, it approved the “budget and call for the repetition of face-to-face votes abroad”, which will take place on Sunday, October 15.

“The process will take place in person in the 101 electoral zones abroad”, the vote reception boards, in the three special electoral constituencies: Canada and USA; Europe, Asia and Oceania; and Latin Americahe Caribbean and Africa.

The repetition of the process is due to the fact that, after the votes were annulled, Ecuadorians residing abroad must choose two representatives for each constituency (six in total) to integrate the National Assembly (Parliament).

The CNE reported that it also approved the “update of the guidelines, calendar, operational plan, risk and contingency matrix, as well as the budget set at more than 2.8 million dollars for the repetition of the elections”.

The CNE plenary session annulled the presidential and legislative votes abroad last Friday, after many voters complained about not having been able to cast their votes due to problems in the telematic voting system applied by the Council itself.

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However, the CNE considered that the repetition of the vote would not affect the general result for President of the Republic, for which reason it was declared that it was not necessary to vote again among the emigrants for that dignity.

The CNE had attributed the problems in the voting system abroad to cyberattacks suffered by the telematics system since the India, bangladesh, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia and Chinaunder investigation.

There are more than 400,000 Ecuadorians eligible to vote abroad, although in the previous vote only 123,854 had registered, of which only 51,643 had been able to register their votes effectively.

The repetition of the vote abroad was opposed by the movement Buildswhose presidential candidate was the murdered Fernando Villavicencioalleging that returning to voting for assembly members in the second round will benefit the parties of the presidential candidates that will dispute the second round.

Until the moment of the annulment of the votes abroad, the scrutiny, where the telematic system had also produced numerous tally sheets with inconsistencies, gave Construye three assembly members and Citizen revolutionthe movement led by former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), another three.

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Thus, Ecuadorian voters abroad must vote on Sunday, October 15, for their representatives to Parliament and for the two finalist candidates in the presidential election that will be measured on that date in a second electoral round.

the correista Luisa Gonzalez and the businessman Daniel Noboason of banana magnate Álvaro Noboa, obtained the highest votes in the first round and won the right to go to the ballot.

Source: Elcomercio

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