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Should jurors supply the consultation card?: the surprising subject of the day
The campaigns have clashed all through the day relating to the providing of the presidential consultation card at the polling stations. Aspirants collaborating in the course of have complained that there are locations the place jurors don’t ask voters in the event that they need to vote in the primaries. On the different hand, the Petrismo, which has referred to as to not vote in the consultations after the National Electoral Council disqualified Iván Cepeda, has formulated the reverse query: they level out that some jurors ask the voter in the event that they need to take part and denounce that that is “inducing the vote.”
Claudia López, a candidate in the Consultation of Solutions, has indicated that she has “hundreds of reports of people who are not informed, offered and delivered the Consultation card, in Barranquilla, the Caribbean and in the country.” “The Registrar’s Office staff does nothing. Even the Ombudsman’s Office has had to intervene. A clear violation of electoral guarantees,” he denounced. The far-right Vicky Dávila, who competes in La Gran Consulta, has commented one thing related in a message in which she asks the Registry for explanations: “Many people tell me that they are not offered the consultation card at the voting station.”
Senator María José Pizarro, head of debate for the Cepeda marketing campaign, has crossed Dávila in Representative María Fernanda Carrascal, who aspires to resume her seat in the decrease home, has additionally spoken out in a message addressed to the Registry Office. “It is totally irregular that they offer the presidential consultation card to voters. They are inducing the vote.”
The nationwide registrar, Hernán Penagos, identified in January that the jurors have the obligation to tell about the consultation: “On March 8, the jurors will deliver two electoral cards, that of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and at the same time they have the duty to inform citizens of the existence of an additional card for the consultations and the citizen will decide if they want to exercise it, that is, vote for it.” The identical is said in an info sheet that the Registry issued with tips for this Sunday.
