The company in charge of control could change

To this end, Argentine courier launched a call for tenders for which they have already anticipated their participation, in addition to Indra, the North American multinational Smartmatic and Argentina Grupo MSA.

The national authorities have entrusted the intention of "Open the game to everyone" companies around the world with electoral experience who want to participate, in order to provide more "Transparency" to this electoral confirmation.

The above Smartmatic it is precisely the company that recently won the tender to provide the software for the next elections, through which all polling results will be digitized in the voting centers in order to transmit the digitized image of the schools in the center. computer. This new feature will replace traditional telegrams and speed up the exam.

This company has already participated in the 2017 elections by deploying a biometric technology for voter authentication in six bordering provinces of the north of the country, in order to avoid electoral fraud by the vote of foreigners. It has also been implemented in 14 municipalities of the conurbano. This system will be put into practice in the next elections, although this time it will be "At zero cost" for him National Stateaccording to the sources of National Electoral Chamberso in 2017 the Judicial Council acquired all the biometric recording machines of the company Smartmatic, winning on this occasion the call for bids.

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Founded in 2000 at United States and whose seat is at London, Smartmatic was born from the incident that is remembered in the state of Florida (USA), in the elections Bush vs. Gore, to develop an advanced electronic voting platform to restore confidence in the implementation of election modernization technology. In dialogue with POPULAR NEWSPAPER, its director general for the southern cone, Andrés Rombolá, explained that this company has held elections in States United, Belgium, Norway, Italy, Estonia, Argentina, Oman and philippines, among other countries.

Rombola He expressed confidence about the offer to be held on February 20, noting that since its inception, this company "Treated more than 37 billion voices on five continents, more than any other company in the world".

MSA is another one of those who will participate in the call for bids and has already participated in the implementation of eVoting in the City of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Salta and Neuquén. In the case of Unique electronic newsletter in the city of Buenos Aires, the system was used only in the elections held in 2011 and 2013 and was dropped in subsequent elections because they took place at the same time as the national elections, so they could not coexist. BUE with the traditional paper ballot.

Bidders will be presented on February 20th and the offer will be announced the same day. "Technical". A few days later, the results of the call for bids will be revealed "Economic", stating that the definition will be based on an badysis in which not only the lowest bid will be taken into account, but also the characteristics of the software provided.

It is estimated that in mid-March, the company in charge of the provisional examination of the next elections will have been defined.