This Friday morning, the Departmental Electoral Court (TED) from Santa Cruz received more than 2,000 boxes with electoral ballotsIn this way, the planning prior to the National Elections This August 17. The Vice President of the TED, José Miguel Callejas, informed that, who are Electoral jurors They must attend personally to monitor the voting elections, but they will be sanctioned
Maria Cristina Claros, president of TED, said the applied sanction For electoral jurors who do not appear to vote is from 50% of the national minimum wage current. In Bolivia, the national minimum wage is Bs 2,750.
He also shared that, in Santa Cruz approximately 2,100 citizens have requested an excuse Not to be Electoral jurors.
Callejas said that, if the excuse is not well founded and supported, it will be rejected.
On July 18, the Electoral Departmental Court (TED) of Santa Cruz Draw at 54,690 electoral jurors27,346 men and 27,344 women, for the general elections of August 17.
Where to do excuse documentation?
About the Care hours in person, Callejas said that Ted is attending From 08:00 to 16:30. “Sunday will be until 12 at night,” he added.
He also pointed out that the documentation and the excuse process to be an electoral jury can be carried out through the Platform ‘Citizen Platform‘, on the web is like Ciudadana platform.oep.org.bo/auth/signin.
If you don’t know if you are a jury, the information is available web on the platform ‘I participate’, www.yoparticipo.oep.org.bo/auth/signin. On this platform, the person who drills Your data will be able to know if you are enabled to vote, your table number, if it is an electoral jury, if you are a militant, among other personal data.
What excuses are valid?
There is nine valid excuses Not to be Electoral jurors In these elections: disease, gestation state, force majeure or fortuitous case, leader of political organizations, candidate or candidate, persons who present indispensable public or private services (doctors and journalists), be over 60 years old, have under dependence on people with disabling diseases and have low dependence on lower infant of up to 2 years.
Rejection time or acceptance of the excuse
According to article 18 of the Regulation of the General Elections of 2025, it says “each excuse presented Within the established period, it will be immediately resolved by the Secretariat of the Chamber of the Departmental Electoral Tribunal, the Electoral Notary or Representative abroad, as appropriate, issuing an irreversible decision of acceptance or rejection, and the corresponding certificate must be extended in the act. “
