The 2024 internal elections will have, as is customary in the Uruguaya wide schedule to be able to attend to vote that will go from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., according to the information provided by the Electoral Court through their website.
At 08:00 on June 30, the reception of votes by the Vote Receiving Commissions (CRV)ending at 7:30 p.m., without the event being interrupted or the reception of votes being suspended for any reason.
The non-obligation of this instance of the electoral process suggests, a priori, that there will be fewer waits when casting the vote than those who can present themselves in the month of October, during the first round of the elections. elections 2024.
However, there are always some times that are better to avoid, although this depends on various factors such as the characteristics of the circuits, their location and the particularities of each location, whether urban or rural.
Traditionally, both in Montevideo as in the inside In the country, older adults usually arrive at the voting centers early in the morning, while young people may tend to postpone voting until the afternoon.
In this sense, some voting centers could have longer lines at mid-morning or mid-afternoon, with the lunch time of Sunday as a watershed of the day. Of course, there are always those who take the opportunity to vote when they suspect that the majority will be having lunch.
For its part, the Electoral Court has already enabled the registry search engine for inmates, which can be consulted online on its website by clicking here.
Possible scenarios in the morning and afternoon
On the other hand, some people prefer not to go to the voting centers first thing in the morning, since the CRV is made up of three people, and in case the members designated by the Electoral Court (between starters and substitutes) do not reach that number, any citizen will be invited to provisionally occupy the positions of those absent.
At the other extreme, those who leave their vote until the last minute could face the unpleasant experience of being left without voting. If after 7:00 p.m. the CRV verifies that there are still voters waiting at the premises and that they could not vote due to lack of time, the period will be extended (maximum of 1 hour) so that they can vote.
Source: Ambito
