The Central Electoral Board (JCE) decided during a recent plenary session to use a new electronic system to transmit the results of the 2024 elections. The scanners used for data transmission in the elections of 2016 and 2020 are discarded.
The 2024 elections include a municipal election on 18 February 2024 and the presidential and congressional electinsn on 19 May 2024.
The plenary of the JCE establishes through resolution 74-2023 to use laptops and multifunctional devices for the digitization, scanning and transmission (EDET) of the results obtained at the polling stations for the municipal, congressional and presidential elections of 2024. The Fujitsu N7100A scanners (15,339 units) used to transmit data in the 2016 and 2020 elections are deemed obsolete and discarded.
For the 2024 election, the JCE will be installing a new transmission system and will use manual vote counting again. The JCE will be purchasing 15,000 laptops and 15,000 multifunctional devices to be used in the 2024 elections. The JCE is purchasing 10,000 uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) for the elections.
The government chose the suppliers:
Offitek, SRL, was chosen to supply the JCE with 6,000 11.6” mega laptops, Lenovo brand, model EA-Y116 Yoga.
CentroExpert S.R.L and Cecomsa, S.R.L, to supply 6,000 HP brand multifunction devices, HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 2775.
The JCE confirms that as ordered in Resolution No. 28-2023, issued by the Plenary on 6 July 2023, the voting and counting process for the 2024 Ordinary General Elections will be carried out manually. Electronic equipment will be used for the digitization, scanning and transmission equipment (EDET) of the electoral results from the voting stations.
The IT Department of the JCE was also instructed to carry out the actions that guarantee the security of the system or software to be used, holding the necessary technical meetings with the delegates. of political organizations and that the necessary audits to guarantee their integrity.
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Listin Diario
1 November 2023