05/07/2020 - 14:27
- Clarín.com
- Politics
After the failed Deputies test, the Senate will test another virtual voting system. Instead of doing the identity check by facial recognition with a photo - as it was in the lower house - they say it will be with a fingerprint, with an agent from the National Registry of Persons (Renaper) of each province that takes the reader home. or official agency from which the legislator connects.
In face-to-face sessions, each senator gives a quorum and votes by putting his finger on the fingerprint reader that each bank has. The idea is to repeat that system, but taking the team to the place where the legislators are. For that, they would have provincial Renaper agents who will provide the equipment.
Images of the system for voting in the Senate.
This process would act as a "password" to enter the virtual voting panel. Likewise, the computed results would be read by Cristina Kirchner out loud, so that each legislator corroborates that their vote was cast correctly. And if not, rectify it.
In the lower house, the system failed when the more than 200 deputies prepared to cast their vote at once. That moment includes a new facial recognition of the Renaper, who asks the legislator for three photos grimacing.
"It has nothing to do with what happened in Deputies. It was already thought that way," they assure from the Front of All of the upper house. "What happened in Deputies is logical. You have to naturalize that you can fail and work so that it does not happen. The more trials and tests there are the better. This is trial and error. What cannot happen to you is that it fails in a real vote" , pointed out from the environment of the former president, and did not rule out new drills between Monday and Tuesday.
Cristina Kirchner will make the first virtual operation test in the Senate this Friday, facing the session scheduled for next Wednesday.
Images of the system for voting in the Senate.
The drill will be held at noon among all the senators and in the afternoon with the president of the Upper House present in the room, although it will be behind closed doors and will not be broadcast.
As in the Chamber of Deputies, the upper house has already placed a giant screen in front of the dais to view the legislators who will connect remotely from their homes or from other official offices.
During this Thursday, the systems team is working remotely with the legislators who remain, in their majority, in their provinces, so that each one can test the system individually.
Cristina Kirchner accepted some changes to the virtual session protocol. However, in the precinct there will be no block chiefs or legislators in general. Only the senators who are, in turn, authorities of the House, and eventually have to replace Cristina on the stand, will be present.
In any case, many will be inside Congress. For the first session, the head of the Together for Change interblock, Luis Naidenoff from Formosa, will stay in Buenos Aires and will be connected to the session from his Senate office.
Several of the Buenos Aires legislators will also participate virtually but from within Congress.
The duration of the sessions was set at six hours maximum. Until now, it is only foreseen that the session on Wednesday the 13th will only deal with 20 of the decrees that Alberto Fernández issued and that have already obtained the green light in the bicameral DNU.
In the ruling party they also seek that the first management report of the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, be done through a virtual session.
The rest of the agenda will depend on the laws entered by Deputies, such as the tax on the wealthy, a project that has not yet been presented.