[ad_1]
Winery of @INEMexico where votes of Mexicans residing abroad for July 1 are saved, filed and separated. Image taken from Twitter: @VotoChilango
CITY OF MEXICO
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) reported that Mexican embassies and consulates abroad do not have power to receive a vote during the Election Day of Sunday, July 1st.
According to the electoral provisions of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexican citizens who reside or are abroad will not be able to vote in the representations of Mexico to the Foreign Minister
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that the INE is an autonomous body and, therefore, the federal government does not participate in the organization of the electoral process.
He recalled that to issue the vote from abroad was exclusively by post the previous registration at the agency, which ended on March 31.
Those Mexicans who He stated in a statement
that he had received nearly 96,000 votes of Mexicans abroad
. The National Electoral Institute (INE) had received 95 thousand 953 votes of Mexicans from abroad from a nominal list of those citizens of 181,000 potential voters, informed the electoral adviser Enrique Andrade.
By participating in the Media Workshop organized by the INE, the chairman of the Temporary Committee on the Voting of Mexicans Resident Abroad estimated that between Friday and 08:00 Saturday they will be able to receive the 100 thousand envelopes-vote
He emphasizes that this vote is historic because in 2006 there were 32 thousand 621 votes and in the last federal election 40 000 714. He informed that 98% voices came from the United States
He explained that the budget for this project is 280 million pesos and calculating that there were 100 thousand votes each vote would have a cost of two thousand five hundred pesos, approximately. [19659005] He said that at 5:00 pm on Sunday, July 1st, the tables will be formally installed at Tec de Monterrey where votes from abroad will be counted, and at 6:00 pm. the envelopes-vote and the calculation of the same.
He added that, from 2016 to date, 672 thousand 855 connacionales carried out the procedure to obtain the right to vote with photograph from the outside, of which 560 thousand were delivered micas
* amgl
[ad_2]
Source link
