On Friday, the registry confirmed the finding of more than 390 thousand votes, and errors in the E14 forms. This Monday he requested the general recount of the votes to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Colombia News.
The presidential elections are coming and what has happened with the ‘errors’ found in the counting and scrutiny of votes, especially in the E14 forms, and the accusations of “fraud” have generated alarm, for this reason, the Registrar’s Office has asked this Monday the Prosecutor’s Office “the general count of votes for the Senate of the Republic, in order to give transparency to the electoral process.”
- Election day: pre-count (quick count) of votes.
- Then, scrutiny: based on Forms E14 (it is done at the local level and with the CNE) for the final results.
The national registrar, Alexander Vega Rocha, who has been accused of (allegedly) favoring a political sector, reiterated that there is no fraud but yes, “errors”.
“Here no votes have been lost. In many cases, there were human errors in the completion of the E-14 form and the subsequent transmission of the information », he assured.
This, in part, may coincide with the complaints of many polling station members who pointed out that those who had to fill out those forms “in the middle of their efforts” ended up doing crossing out, marking numbers wrong, filling in blanks incorrectly.
The votes at this time “are in chain of custody.”
Each table, more than 112 thousand that were installed, has the data of its members: each card was marked by whoever delivered the card.
This means that if there are irregularities at a certain table that go beyond “errors”, an investigation will have to be made with those involved.
“There was no fraud. The precount is informative, no one has won or lost votes or seats until the count is over,” Vega warned.
While there are parties, candidates and citizens talking about fraud, losing some seats and raising others.
Although the MOE had initially reported that they found findings that should lead to an investigation.
There may be:
- Alterations of the results
- False public document
- voter fraud
However, he later warned that what has been found does not allow for a planned fraud to be established.
Historical Pact, Citizen Force and New Liberalism those that “found” the most votes by sweeping their juries, others like the Democratic Center would have lost some seats and thus other organizations denounce irregularities.
There were places where not even a single vote was recorded in favor of a certain coalition, although many people report “I voted for it.”
It revealed that 80.54% of the 727,823 jurors were trained personally and virtually, both theoretically and practically.#Elections2022 #GuarantorsOfDemocracy @CNE_COLOMBIA @FiscaliaCol
— National Registry of Civil Status (@Registraduria) March 21, 2022
