The Government celebrated the approval of the Single Paper Ballot: “There will be a voting system up to the task”

The initiative was approved this afternoon in Deputies with 143 votes in favor and 87 against (mainly from Unión por la Patria) and 5 abstentions.

Through a statement from the President’s Officethe Government highlighted that “the Single Paper Ballot puts an end to a voting system that prevailed in Argentina decadent of the last 100 years, which benefited the political caste and which facilitated all types of scourges when citizens were called to the polls to perform the sacred act of voting.”.

In that sense, they also pointed out that this new form of voting, which will begin to be implemented in the 2025 legislative elections, will be “the system that Argentines will use to elect their representatives in the new Argentina for the next 100 years.”

“Electoral cheating and fraud will not dominate the political process“emphasized the Executive Branch.

Finally, they remarked: “In the new Argentina, without inflation, with an orderly economy and without chronic deficit, with a security model that combats crime and a judicial system that ends the doctrine in favor of criminals, “There will be a voting system that is up to the task.”

What does the Single Paper Ballot consist of?

In this electoral mechanism, all candidates competing for the same position are presented to the voter on a single ballot. That is to say, a role for each category: governor, mayor, deputy, senator, councilor.

The candidates are displayed with the logo and name of the alliance, the name of the list and the photo of the holders, while the substitutes appear only with their names. It can be said that it passes from a suffrage by political force, as happens with the traditional ballot, to another based on personal attributes.

Although the designs of the BUP may be different depending on the jurisdictionsNext to each competitor, the ballots usually have a box to select a single candidate with a pen.