In registration matters, they indicated “that the operation and installation of the Citizen Attention Modules in real estate in the public domain of the municipalities, federal entities or the federation, affects the security of personal data, the hours of attention to citizens and saturation, among others”.
Additionally, they said, reducing the percentage of registered persons from 13% to 10% implies risks in the integration of electoral sections with less than 100 citizens in the Nominal List. “In addition to privileging older citizens to integrate the polling stations violates the rights of the youngest, when more than 50 percent of the people who make up the Casilla Board of Directors are under 30 years of age.”
They indicated that reducing the term that the electoral authority has for training affects the quality control of the recruitment and selection procedures of the Electoral Supervisors (SE) and Electoral Assistant Trainers (CAE).
The observations made by the structure of the Institute derive from the Report that the Executive Secretary presented to the General Council of the INE on January 25.
By 2024, the INE must distribute more than 300 million ballots, recalled the councilor Ciro Murayama. “The professionals who do this work disappear with the reform. In addition, there is a risk that the electoral packages will be recovered once the vote is over, ”he stressed.
The counselor explained that the reform prevents INE electoral assistant trainers (CAEs) from supporting the citizens who are presidents of the polls to return the electoral package.
As befits a democracy, respectful dialogue is the basis for concord and understanding.
directors and officers of the @INEMexico we went to @senadomexicano to present technical opinions on the electoral reform.
An autonomous body and a Power of the Union. pic.twitter.com/MW0L3gLSix
— Ciro Murayama (@CiroMurayamaINE)
February 10, 2023
The counselor also said that the reform wants the parties to replace their representatives (+ than 2M) from the polling place one day before the vote. “But the package was received by the polling station president 5 days before the election. Thus, it is not known who is an accredited representative and who is not.
“So if an accredited representative is denied access, the vote for the entire polling place is annulled. And if someone not accredited enters, the box is also cancelled. This is an unnecessary and dangerous change. And the calculations come: the members of the organization are fired, ”he noted.
In addition, he pointed out that the reform affects the register, the installation of polling stations and the counting of votes. “The entire chain of trust of a trustworthy election is hurt by the electoral reform.”
“If the secretaries of the INE are suppressed, there will be no one to substantiate complaint procedures between parties. Neither is anyone who makes all the notifications to parties, candidates and citizens. Nor who draws up the minutes of each act and decision of the INE to comply with the law, ”he stressed.
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Morenista senator Ricardo Monreal reported that it was Lorenzo Córdova, INE’s president advisor, who called him to ask him to talk in the Senate of the Republic.
“I said yes, because the Senate has always acted as a body for dialogue and in good faith, where all voices are heard,” the senator said before the meeting.
“He told me that the councilors had a number of concerns and that they wanted to express them,” he added. The meeting was scheduled for 5:30 p.m. this Thursday, February 9.
Monreal stressed that the meeting is not about a parliament open at the wrong time, but about a frank dialogue.
“The doors should not be closed to listen to the points of view of other autonomous bodies,” he noted before the media.
The modifications of “Plan B” of the electoral reform promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have generated doubts and reactions due to the reduction of budgetary resources that is intended to be made to the National Electoral Institute (INE).
Over the weekend, within the framework of the 106th anniversary of the 1917 Constitution, the president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova, said that the electoral “Plan B”, promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, transgresses and It contradicts the Magna Carta.
The INE went to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to challenge the reforms to the Law of Social Communication and the Law of Responsibilities of Public Servants. He will later challenge the rest of the laws, once the Senate concludes the legislative process.
