Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, December 22, 2021, p. 4
With a daily review rhythm of 75 thousand signatures delivered for the promotion of the mandate revocation process, the National Electoral Institute has the time necessary to determine if the threshold of support required by law has been reached, equivalent to 3 percent of the Nominal list (2 million 758 thousand supporters), asserted the director of the Federal Register of Voters, René Miranda, who pointed out that in January the personnel assigned to this task will be increased. The headings delivered on paper exceed 6 million.
During a conference at the winery in which a thousand 406 boxes with signatures delivered on paper were concentrated – of which only 121 have been opened to begin the review -, Miranda explained that there is a procedure to prove, from the outset, that they are not formats delivered in photocopies, including a copy of the voter’s credential and the citizen’s signature.
In this first review, a first cut is determined between the valid and invalid backups, which is why the digitization of data began just yesterday to compare them with the RFE base and determine if they are in the nominal list.
It seems very important to us that in these exercises of popular consultation, independent candidacies, revocation of mandate now, it really is the flesh and blood citizens who are supporting and not that the will of some Mexican can be manipulated.
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He reported that so far, the support that has been delivered through the INE’s telephone application has been validated one million 44 thousand 630 in a preliminary way. In the case of supports that fail to comply with some of the requirements, citizens will be granted the right to a hearing so that they can correct the inconsistencies and validly accredit the support.
Once the endorsements that have all the requirements have been confirmed, a second stage is passed for their capture and the subsequent confrontation with the data of the nominal list of voters. It was reported that the little more than 4 million voter credentials that expired in 2020 and 2021, to which their validity was extended until April 10, will be considered valid to support the exercise.
Miranda reported that a cost of 1.7 million pesos was projected for this stage, since they would be support received in the application.
