The President of the Board of Directors of the Electoral Service (Servel), Andres Tagle, made a balance on the plebiscite of September 4, in which Rejection triumphed over Approval. Among the things highlighted by Tagle, is the “unprecedented participation” of the electorate and the “good georeferencing”, a measure implemented for the first time in an electoral process.
“We closed a historic day with an unprecedented turnout: 13,021,063 people went to the polls to peacefully express their choice, in what was a new celebration of democracy,” Tagle said at a press point.
Likewise, he indicated that they are “proud” of the work carried out in the process and that Servel faced a series of challenges. Among them are the application for the first time of automatic registration with compulsory voting and the implementation -also for the first time- of the georeferencing system.
“We had to carry out a communication strategy so that the electorate knew that their vote was a duty and that, if they did not vote, they would be exposed to fines. And, furthermore, that they should check their polling station and polling place,” Tagle commented.
“The days before the plebiscite we were able to see a massive data consultation. Until yesterday, 14,966,319 unique RUN entries were generated, with a total of 48 million RUNs consulted,” he continued.
Regarding georeferencing, Tagle pointed out that the technical teams made a “good” allocation of premises and that “it will improve progressively” in the next electoral processes. Likewise, he highlighted that “we succeeded in calculating the capacity of the polling places and the operating hours of the tables.”
“The days before the plebiscite we received cybersecurity alerts. And our systems, which are usually secure, were reinforced. Only yesterday, more than 23,000 hacking attempts were received on the successfully blocked website,” he added.
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Regarding the results of the plebiscite, Tagle affirmed that, with 99% of the tables counted, the Approval obtained 4,860,093 votes (38.14%), while the Rejection 7,882,958 votes (61.86%).
These results “correspond to 38,754 tables out of a total of 38,757, missing three unscrutinized tables from which Servel did not receive the minutes,” he said.
“Additionally, there are 10 tables not considered in the results due to errors of magnitude because their minutes presented a total of more than 450 votes. You can see their digitized minutes in the system,” explained the president of Servel.
“In turn, there are 946 out of square tables, whose details are also shown in the system,” he explained.
