Argentine opposition lawmakers to demand 'transparency' from the Electoral Court

Monday, September 14th 2015 - 09:49 UTC

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Argentine lawmakers from several opposition Lower House caucuses will appear on Monday before the National Electoral Court to present their “Inter-party agreement for Electoral Transparency”, an accord to avoid irregularities in October 25 presidential and legislative polls. Read full article

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Zaphod102
“...ballot boxes disappeared and so did monitoring cameras, plus other irregularity claims...”

I've heard of:
- Empty ballot boxes
- Ballot boxes with 100% votes for one person
- A person “winning” a ballot with more votes than the number of votes counted.
- Issuing of fake ballot papers (so a person thinks that they are voting for X but their vote is actually invalid).
- Theft of ballot papers (“we've run out of ballot papers for the party you want to vote for, so vote for this one instead”)

The system is clearly vulnerable to much irregularity and therefore needs to be improved, but at what level of irregularity does a ballot become invalid? The electorate needs confidence in the system for it to work properly and clearly the population of Tucuman doesn't trust the process. The problem with a recount is that you may be able to correct some of the damage but probably not all of it.

Fix the system, vote again and arrest anyone suspected of interfering - that's how a true democracy would work.
Sep 14th, 2015 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
“Argentine opposition lawmakers to demand 'transparency' from the Electoral Court”

In TDC?

Good luck with that! Ha, h, ha.
Sep 14th, 2015 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Islander1
Reminds me of a couple of years ago I was guide for a coach load of visiting argentines off a cruise ship as I can speak reasonable Spanish. During a general chit-chat a number of them were slagging off Christina - I said hang on a bit - somebody must have voted for her as she got in with a big majority?
The answer I got from the tourists was - ” you do not understand - in our country, elections are - well - different - it is the how votes are counted !!!
Sep 14th, 2015 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Enrique Massot
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Massive fraud in Argentina is a claim the opposition has grown accustomed to when results do not favour them. I win, I shut my mouth; I lose, I cry foul.
In spite of your entertaining story, the elections in Argentina have been celebrated regularly with no proven cases of irregularities.
However, for losers and foreigners, speaking of fraud offers some comfort.
That's all.
Sep 15th, 2015 - 12:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Skip
OMG the Argentinean education system strikes again!

“...fraud in Argentina is a claim the opposition has grown accustomed to...”

Of course it is the opposition when it is the party in power holding the election.

I don't understand you Enrique. According to you there are no problems in Argentina. And yet you chose to not only leave but not even the 'won decade' could entice you back. I can only assume the government and economy of Canada is much more to your liking than Argentina's.

Puzzling when according to you they are equal.

Blind patriotism has never ever helped country improve.
Sep 15th, 2015 - 01:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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