After a second try with electronic voting failed, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) is returning to manual voting. On Friday, the JCE announced 8 million physical ballots are being printed in two weeks. Editora Corripio got the contract. The company had already printed the sections where physical ballots would be used for the failed municipal election.
Mario Núñez, JCE elections director, said the artwork for the ballots was approved by the political party delegates on Thursday, 20 February.
8,270,775 physical ballots that will be used in the Sunday, 15 March 2020 municipal election. This includes 8% more than the 7.4 million eligible voters.
Núñez said that the 3.2 million ballots that would have been used in the 16 February election will be stored in freight containers until the protocol for their incineration is met.
In other developments, the date for alliances has been extended to 25 February, and the deadline for registering presidential candidacies is extended one week, from 3 March to 10 March 2020.
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Z101 Digital
24 February 2020