The Electoral Service (Servel) published this Monday the electoral roll for the exit plebiscite of the draft of the new Constitution, which will be held on September 4. The agency reported that 15,173,857 people are qualified to vote in the election, which will be mandatory.
Of the total number of voters, 15,076,623 are authorized in national territory, while 97,234 are abroad. Likewise, at the country level, 7,728,662 are women and 7,347,961 men. Abroad, 50,493 are women and 46,741 men.
In percentage terms, 51% of the electoral roll is made up of women and 49% of men.
According to the Servel in a statement, the register was prepared “based on the information provided by the Civil Registry and Identification Service, the Judiciary, the Immigration Department of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security, the National Immigration and Police Headquarters International Investigative Police of Chile and the consulates of Chile”.
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The Servel also detailed the communes with the largest number of voters in the country. These are Puente Alto (404,948), Maipú (392,505) and Santiago (347,155).
Meanwhile, the three nationalities with the highest number of foreigners eligible to vote in Chile are: Peru (167,348), Colombia (68,430) and Bolivia (54,409).
For its part, the list of disabled persons audited showed that 266,135 voters are unable to vote in the national territory. Of the total, 88,376 are women and 177,759 men.
Claims period begins June 7
According to the Servel, “the objective of this publication is that people can corroborate the information contained in the electoral rolls and present their objections within the term that the law considers for it,” they indicated in the statement.
“In situations where people consider that they were unjustifiably omitted from these electoral rolls, they can claim, between June 7 and 16, before the Regional Electoral Court (TER) of their electoral domicile,” they added. The TER list is available here.
“Furthermore, any natural person, political party or candidate may submit claims regarding voters unfoundedly omitted from the register or who appear with erroneous data, and request the exclusion of whoever appears on it in contravention of the law. These claims must be submitted to the corresponding TER to the domicile of the elector about which it is claimed,” they added.
