Extend the complaint for irregularities in the voting of foreigners

The proxies of the justicialist party and the front of all extended to the electoral justice the denunciation which they had made for alleged irregularities in the general elections of Sunday, referring to the vote carried out by correspondence, to the vote face to face to the abroad and at the level of participation of voters who do not reside in the country.

The PJ's lawyer, Jorge Landau, explained that the presentation – last Thursday at the last minute – showed "irregularities and the real intentionality of the modification of the legal voting system of Argentineans abroad – by a decree of the executive power – incorporating a modality which should have had the special majority of the legislative organs ".

He added that this change should have been made with the "participation of all political forces".

The extension of the complaint was presented by Landau, Patricia Alejandra García Blanco, Graciana Peñafort, Geronimo Javier Ustarroz and Eduardo Gustavo López Wesselhoefft, lawyers of the PJ and the Front of All. "After the decision of the National Electoral Chamber confirming the unconstitutionality of the procedure established by Decree 45/2019 – as soon as it abolished the provisional control that should be carried out at the consular headquarters – the executive power n & # 39; It has not changed the norm in question by leaving a legal vacuum.

And that despite the "Electoral Chamber set up a vote counting procedure", "it was planned to verify the identity of voters on the basis of the sworn statement that should accompany the vote," "late in the In the afternoon, the chamber informed the consular offices of the suspension of the procedure of verification of the identity until the conclusion of the elections of October 27 at 18 hours.

"The prosecutors were not informed in due time and in the form of the suspension and, because of the time difference, some offices did not receive the counter-order and opened their doors on Thursday 24 at 9:30 am For example, in the consulates in Miami, New York and Stockholm, the prosecutors of the Frente de Todos arrived on Thursday 24 at the appointed time to check the opening of the envelopes and the authorities refused to carry out the procedure for opening the envelopes. Verification of the identity of the elector by mail.