The Mexican national team and fans in Russia will be left without a vote: INE

The players of the Mexican national football team, the technical team that accompanies them, as well as the thousands of Mexicans who are in Russia in the World Cup, will be left without a vote next Sunday, the 1st of July.

During a journalism workshop at the National Electoral Institute (INE), Electoral Advisor, Enrique Andrade and René Miranda, Director of the Federal Register of Voters, acknowledged that not all Russian nationals can not vote

. They explained that for Mexicans traveling, they must be registered in advance in order to be on the nominative list and that INE will send them the electoral parcel to an address at the address. foreigner where the newsletter will arrive.

"The legal period that the law says to register your event to vote from abroad opens on September 1 and ends on March 31, even if the law closes it before In December, the General Council reached an agreement that extended until March 31 in an unprecedented manner, seeking to make it easier for citizens, "explained René Miranda

He rejected that it was a lack of agreement between the Mexican Football Federation and INE for Mexican players to be able to vote, even though Mexico 's only one is the Mexican Football Association. is qualified for almost two years, because they explained that no one was certain that he would appear on the final list.

Some selected I did not know if I was going to go to the World Cup to register before March 31, I did not know if I was going to go, and that applies to managers, staff and handsome citizens, they do not necessarily have their definition of travel before 31. March, but later, "said Rene Miranda.

Therefore, the two INE officials, asked to review the voting pattern abroad and legislators should allow a longer period to extend the margin of "We must look for models more flexible, without delays as restrictive as it is a postal process where there is a deadline to register and you still do not have your definitions of when and where you will be, it seems to me that's where it's starting to get complicated, because remember that the vote is to send a ballot to an address that you have to check and deliver a document that says you'll be there, a lot of people who come to the hotel do not have the certainty where you will be physically to get a mail envelope, "added the director of the Federal Register of Voters.

95,000 votes of Mexicans abroad were received.

In this context, officials reported that until Thursday, 95 thousand 953 votes of Mexicans abroad were received, doubling the number received in 2012 and tripling the 2006 votes

The National Electoral Institute reported that in the 2006 elections, the electoral authority received 33,111 votes by correspondence; of which 32 thousand 621 were valid, whereas in 2012, 40 thousand 962 votes were received from Mexicans and Mexicans residing abroad, of which 40 thousand 714 were valid.

Each Mexican vote abroad had a cost to the Mexican treasury of two thousand five hundred pesos.