For those who have never voted or want to change their polling station, and although many young people who have just turned 18 have registered, many left the registration of ballots until the last minute.
Colombia News.
The process of inscription of cédulas for the legislative elections in March 2022 was open since March of last year, either via virtual or at the Registrar’s offices, even so, it has been since December and so far in January there is congestion , people rushing to sign up.
In addition, in recent days there have been technical failures in the app ‘Congress Voters Info’ and there are complaints and requests for an extension of the deadline for registering the identity card.
Deadlines
Before the requests, the National Registry of Civil Status, responded that there will be special days for voters to be registered.
- From January 8 to 10, a special day, andn all the special, auxiliary and municipal registries of the country, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. m.
- The opening hours were extended from January 11 to 13, in those same places: 8:00 am to 7:00 pm.
The other routes for the identification process are:
Registrations go until midnight on Thursday, January 13.
Have your ID, all your personal data at hand.
Until January 6, there were 817,998 IDs registered in Colombia, due to change of address.
To choose
The closing of registrations must give time for the Registry to verify the data provided, upload them and vote can be done without problems in March.
The entire election process for the congress (Senate, Chamber and Curules de Paz 2022) advances, this January 12 and 13 will be held the raffles for the position of the logos of the cards.
Are 2,835 registered candidates.
- For the Senate they were registered 934 candidates, which make up 25 lists in this way: National circumscription 16 lists made up of 912 candidates; and for the indigenous constituency, nine lists made up of 22 applicants.
- To the House of Representatives: 1,498 male and female candidates on 328 lists.
In this case, 263 lists made up of 1,335 candidates were left with a territorial constituency; indigenous constituency, seven lists made up of 12 candidates; Afro-descendant constituency, 48 lists made up of 129 candidates; and international constituency ten lists made up of 22 applicants.
And the choices for the Circumscriptions Special Transitory Peace, 16 in the country.
This is how you can change your polling station for the 2022 elections ⬇️
You have until January 13 to register your document. #GaranteesDeLaDemocracia pic.twitter.com/Uazew41d5O
– National Registry of Civil Status (@Registraduria) January 9, 2022
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