09/10/2021 18:40
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/10/2021 18:40
Two days before the Open, Simultaneous and Compulsory Primary (PASO), the Argentine Mail began with the distribution of ballot boxes in an operation
that has at least 12 helicopters, 10 boats and mules to reach every corner of the country
.
The Official Mail of the Argentine Republic reported that they will use more than 14 thousand vehicles, mules, horses and boats to
distribute more than 100 thousand ballot boxes
throughout the country, in operations to access the most remote places in the national territory.
The official body said that the electoral system will have 63 thousand workers and 14,070 vehicles that will facilitate the transfer of ballot boxes, electoral material and sanitary kits to guarantee that the elections are carried out
in 17,092 establishments
.
The delivery operation
is scheduled to
end in the last hours of tomorrow
.
In addition to the 1,482 total Correo branches across the country,
1,153 were adapted as digital electoral branches
.
They are equipped to digitize and transmit the telegrams to the operational headquarters for the processing of the provisional count by the National Electoral Directorate.
The Argentine Mail began distributing the ballot boxes for the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) on Sunday.
But in addition, the operation includes more than 90,000 members of the armed and security forces.
In a statement, the Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that the personnel will be organized under the orders of Major General Martín Deimundo Escobal, appointed as Chief of the General Electoral Command (CGE).
The electoral command will be made up of personnel from the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, who will be deployed in the 24 districts of the country together with agents from the Gendarmerie, the Naval Prefecture, the Federal Police, the Airport Security Police and the Provincial Police.
The operation will have a total of 90,340 troops, 5,225 land vehicles, a C-130 "Hercules" plane, 12 helicopters, 10 boats and mules to transport the ballot boxes in the mountainous regions of the country.
Coverage will reach 17,092 polling stations, where 101,457 polling stations will be enabled
throughout the country.
The operative numbers
17,092 Premises authorized to vote
101,457 Tables nationwide
14,000 Vehicles to distribute the ballot boxes
90,340 Gendarmerie troops
The Veda governs
This Friday at 8 in the morning the ban began to govern, which prohibits public campaign events and proselytizing activities, while the different spaces prepare the bunkers where they will wait for the results.
The electoral ban begins 48 hours before the start of the electoral act, scheduled for Sunday at 8 a.m., and the prohibitions apply until 9 p.m. on Sunday, three hours after the close of the elections.
In addition, it is prohibited to publish and disseminate pre-election polls or polls
, a prohibition that is also maintained during the election and up to 3 hours after its closing
.
On the other hand,
the sale of alcoholic beverages is
also
prohibited from 20 on Saturday, September 11
, until three hours after the close of elections, that is, 21 on Sunday.
On Sunday, September 12, the Open, Simultaneous and Compulsory Primary (PASO) will take place.
Nor can voting ballots be offered or delivered to voters within a radius of eighty meters from the polling stations, counted on the road, street or road.
In turn,
for the voters, meanwhile, the carrying of arms, the use of flags
, badges or other badges
is prohibited
during the day of the election, twelve hours before and three hours after the end.
Meanwhile, popular outdoor or indoor shows and all kinds of public meetings that do not refer to the electoral act, such as plays, may not be held during the elections and until three hours after being closed. .
With information from Télam
LM
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