Enrique Mendez
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, p. 10
The president of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna (Morena) attributed to a technical intermittency
in the connection between the tablets in the seats and the electronic board the ghost vote
of the union leader Pedro Haces on the occasion of the reform of constitutional supremacy
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After the PAN requested an investigation into the fact that Haces Barba was allowed to vote remotely, when since it is a reform of the Constitution he must be present, yesterday an explanation was offered to the Political Coordination Board.
Gutiérrez Luna explained that Haces’s vote appeared on the board in the session of October 30, when the labor leader would have been out of the country, due to a technical intermittency
that did not transcend, because it was not registered even in the Parliamentary Gazette nor in the final result.
The reform was voted in favor with 340 votes, including that of Haces, but when the remote vote was revealed, it was erased from the system. When Gutiérrez Luna was asked what kind of failure he was referring to, he first stated: it was a intermittency in the provider’s Internet system
which according to him, It sometimes occurs when by mistake a representative uses a tablet that does not belong to him, the vote is momentarily loaded. It is a technical issue, which has to do with Internet provision.
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Later, when it was pointed out to him that a deputy cannot vote in a seat other than his own, because the system opens only with biometric data, he responded: For this reason, I pointed out that it was possibly due to an attempt by a deputy who confused the seat. It is a possibility, but it is due to intermittency of the Internet service. That was all
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–How can it be an error by the provider, if the deputy had to be present, or which other deputy made a mistake, if each one has been assigned their biometric data – he was insisted.
–Look at what I said, it was not an error on the part of the provider, it was an intermittency of the Internet service, which was probably generated by an attempt when someone tried to vote. It has happened to me, sometimes it arrives and there are several tablets, I take one, it is not mine, I realize that it is not mine, and I take another. It is something that can happen normally and there is no manipulation.
