The National Elections Jury (JNE) plans to move this Sunday 2, the day of the Regional and Municipal Elections 2022to 15 thousand 773 inspectors in the polling places to verify the legality of the actions and conduct of the electoral actors, as well as to carry out the monitoring of the electoral act (installation of tables, suffrage and scrutiny).
According to the distance and accessibility to the respective Special Electoral Juries (JEE), 12 thousand 491 of such specialists were assigned to urban areas, 2023 to intermediate rural areas and 1259 to remote rural areas.
Among the functions that the inspectors will fulfill is to ensure the correct arrival of the electoral material at the voting centers and the subsequent withdrawal at the end of the day to the premises of the Decentralized Offices of Electoral Processes (ODPE).
Likewise, they will report the incidents during the elections throughout the national territory, as a result of the supervision of the electoral act and the participation in operations to comply with the Dry Law, electoral propaganda, neutrality in the electoral period, among other prohibitions and restrictions.
Through a mobile control application, they will carry out the photographic record of the day’s activities of the electoral day during the installation, the suffrage and the scrutiny of the tables.
Meanwhile, in each ONPE computing center (103 in total), a reception line inspector will be present at the time of arrival of the electoral material that will be delivered from the polling places to the aforementioned computing centers, with the respective police and/or military protection.
This JNE staff joins those who since February of this year have been in charge of ensuring compliance with electoral regulations.
These are 94 audit coordinators, 196 provincial inspectors, 186 district inspectors, 185 resumes and 103 technicians, according to details from the institution’s National Directorate of Audit and Electoral Processes.
