STEP 2019: results can only be reported when 10% of the votes in the main districts are loaded

Before the opening of schools for voting in the

the elections

Primary open simultaneous and mandatory (
STEP), electoral justice limited the dissemination of data until a certain percentage of the tables were loaded in the four main districts.

The federal judge with electoral jurisdiction,
Maria Romilda Servini of Cubría, prohibits the national government from issuing the provisional examination until at least 10% of the votes of the province of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe and the city of Buenos Aires are accounted for .

The complete failure

The decision comes after criticism by the Front of All about the company Smartmatic, responsible for transmitting the data so that they are distributed in the computer center located in Buenos Aires.

The coalition that presents Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner as candidates would have argued that the elections could be manipulated on the data to be loaded first to promote the image of the Cambiemos government.

From the Ministry of the Interior, they said
THE NATION who have been informed of the court's decision and that,
even if the percentage established by Servini was prior to 21, Data will only be released at this time.

For its part, after having voted, the President
Mauricio Macri He said that in his opinion, after 22:30, a projection could be closer to the provisional result that will be disseminated by the National Directorate of Elections (DINA).