The Superior Court of Electoral Justice rejected the requests of the National Crusade regarding the opening of Envelope 4 and the recount of votes, since these actions are prohibited by law, in this instance of the process.
After concluding the count of tables at the country level and abroadr, with less than 1% of challenges and, with the results in agreement with the TREP, Electoral Justice rejected a request made by the National Crusade, which intended to recount each vote, despite the fact that the scrutiny was carried out publicly on the day of the elections, before representatives of all parties.
The ministers of the TSJE unanimously resolved not grant requests for the opening of Envelope 4 and recount of ballot papers, and, of the international audit of voting machines and their operating system.
The document argues that, acceding to the request would have caused the breakdown of the mechanisms established gradually in three instances: board members (those who count the bulletins, recount them according to the direction of the vote and record their data in the minutes); electoral courts of the constituencies of the country (who consolidate the information summarized in the electoral document) and the TSJE (which evaluates the challenges by legal criteria).
Article 227 of the Electoral Code provides that, once the counting of votes by the polling station members has finished, the president of the polling station will ask if there is any protest against the counting. Not having any or resolved those that exist, the result will be announced and the minutes will be drawn up and signed.
Regarding the international audit of machines, the resolution states that this procedure was already fulfilled before the elections and that the activity was sufficiently disclosed through the TSJE.
