Fabiola Martínez
La Jornada newspaper
Friday, April 18, 2025, p. 5
The National Electoral Institute (INE) will launch a system next Tuesday, available for all those registered in the register, so that citizens practice their vote of the judicial election.
The tests carried out this week were successful. The Directorate of the Federal Registry of voters made available to the personnel of Central, District and Local Offices of the INE an electronic access to the conóceles system, practices and locates.
The objective of the test was submitted to the maximum pressure, in a drill of mass consultation.
Access to the site requires two data: the entity recorded in the voting credential and the section number, also included in that Mica. Then the system will display the ballots and names of candidates that will be in sight on Sunday June.
In the ballots, the voter must capture in each box the number corresponding to a judge candidate and in the end verify the result of the exercise.
With these steps, the INEC intends that the citizen arrives at the day of the election prepared for the new voting system, which assigns a color for each of the six contests of the Judicial Power of the Federation (apart will be the state judicial elections).
With the exercise, the voter may also be familiar with the boxes at the top of the ballots.
In those spaces the voter will write down the number of each candidate of their preference. The rectangles are divided with a dotted line, because if the number chosen is less than 10, a zero should be put.
The candidacies are divided into two columns, one of women and another of men, both in alphabetical order.
After the name there is a acronym related to the power that nominated each candidacy (executive, legislative and/or judicial), or EF
In the case of a judge currently in office that seeks to continue, now by means of popular vote.
The most difficulty tickets are those corresponding to circuit courts and district judges, because there, in addition, it must be chosen according to the specialty: criminal, administrative, labor, etc., each identified with a color.
The previous practice is important because in the contest there are 3,414 candidates. While not everyone will vote for all, the ballot is new.
The challenge for INE is to encourage citizen participation, but above all that the voter knows what to do before so many acronyms, names, colors and positions.
For now, he will suggest the voter to carry his own pen, since the crayons of past elections have a thick tip, which would make the writing and reading of the chosen numbers difficult.
Another novel element that should be known is that this time the voter will only pass to the table of box officials where the credential, the thumb (with indelible ink) will be marked and will be placed in the booklet of the list the seal Vote
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That is, unlike previous processes, after voting in secret, he will not return to the table.
When this characteristic was approved in the General Council of the INE, with the purpose of expediting the process once inside the box, the vote was divided because some directors warned that there could be loss or theft of unmarked ballots.
