The electoral institute endures another 11 thousand boxes still without increasing its budget

Fabiola Martínez and Lilian Hernández

La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, February 6, 2025, p. 7

In the judicial election of the next June 1, the National Electoral Institute (INE) will install 83 thousand 997 Sectional boxeswhere citizens will deposit in a single urn the ballots of all dispute contests, both federal and local level.

It was also determined to look for citizens whose first last name begins with the letter J to invite them to be box officials.

The number of vote receiving tables was calculated with the prospect that the INE will receive a budget extension of 800 million pesos, as President Claudia Sheinbaum stated at a private meeting with the 11 counselors, held last month.

During yesterday’s session, two counselors warned that the INE still does not have the additional resource in their account.

Carla Humphrey said there is no formal response of the Ministry of Finance and, therefore, there is no certainty to tell us where this institute should walk.

He said that although it is correct to approve the box model and other elements, such as the impression of the commission documentation, there is still no Official responseso they should not venture The number of boxes to be installed.

Claudia Zavala asked that the increase in boxes not be taken for granted until the money is in the INE account. After the cut of the Chamber of Deputies to the Institute’s budget, the original forecast was to install 73 thousand sectionals.

Norma de la Cruz, a member of the Organizing Commission, said that she does trust the word “of President Sheinbaum, and the Institute will ensure that each box has the same standards of easy location and accessibility, as in previous elections.

He added that the INE foresees that the boxes will have sufficient capacity to receive the vote of the entire nominal list; in a type of between 100 and one thousand voters, and in the largest, between one thousand and 2,250.

The organ will also install special boxes for citizens in transit, where there will be a thousand tickets for each contest, although in that case, depending on the place where the voter is located, they will tell you how many charges you can suffer.

The model includes this time Unique urn; Although the counselor Dania Ravel proposed that there were two, one for the federal judicial and one for the premises (in the 17 entities where they will choose the members of the local judiciary), this alternative did not happen, with the argument that in this way They will avoid bottlenecks and confusion.

For the first time, box officials will not count the meaning expressed in each vote; They will only classify the ballots by type of choice, they will count those deposited in the urn and invalidate the unused. There were other proposals; For example, that the citizen was marked or entitled to the index or return his credential until after voting, in order to avoid the practice of theft of ballots, but did not pass.

Choose the lyrics J

The letter raffle J It is complemented by the selection made on December 20, related to the months of birth (February and May) of the potential members of the tables; Visits to homes, to make this invitation, will be from February 9 to March 31.