The nine departmental electoral courts and the Supreme Electoral Court – which They constitute the Plurinational Electoral Agency (OEP) – They made this Friday the raffle of 211,518 citizens who will officiate from Electoral jurors on October 19; The amount includes compatriots who will develop that task on election day.
The draw was distributed as follows: Santa Cruz, being the department with the most inhabitants, was the one that designated the most jurors, 54,690 in total; while the second was La Paz, with 54,594 jurors.
The figures in the other departments were: Cochabamba, 38,076; Potosí, 14,262; Chuquisaca, 10,890; Tarija, 10,884; Oruro, 10,158; Beni, 8,238; And Pando closed, with 2,364 jurors. Outside, 7,362 compatriots enrolled in the electoral roll were raffled.
“Notification to the Sufargia table jurors appointed by the Departmental Electoral Courts For national vote and notification of jurors of the suffrage tables designated by the Supreme Electoral Court to vote abroad, ”says activity 75 of the electoral calendar, which means that From this Saturday the designated citizens will be communicated.
According to this program, From September 19 to 29 of this month the activities will be covered by this taskbecause Friday was a raffle; On Saturday, notifications will be all citizens who were designated and on Sunday the list of 211,518 jurors will be published.
The next step will be The excuses that citizens who cannot go to fulfill the task; Finally, on Monday, September 29, the training of jurors in charge of electoral notaries will begin throughout the country.
Citizens who were raffled as electoral jurors must assume that role assigned by the State, cannot refuse and Those who are really prevented from exercising that position can make their impediment know before the departmental courts or the TSE, in the case of citizens who live abroad.
According to article 65 of the Law of the Electoral Body (Law 018), citizens will have a week to present their excuses and departmental electoral courts will accept the excuse for four reasons. “Disease tested with medical certification; gravity state; force majeure or fortuitous case documentary proven; Being a leader or candidate of political organizations, duly accredited, ”says the aforementioned article.
