The Independent Party presidential candidate said he is seeking an environmentally “cleaner” campaign.
The former Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) and presidential candidate for the Independent Party (PI), Pablo Mieresannounced that he will promote a bill to implement electronic voting in the departmental and municipal elections by 2025.
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The candidate assured that in a press conference heElectronic voting It should have been promoted a long time ago and its proposal is based on the implementation of a machine, similar to an ATM, where voters can choose a slogan and a sub-slogan and the sheet with the details of their choice is printed.


The voter would then put the sheet of paper in the voting envelope and place it in the ballot box as is normally done. In this way, according to Mieres, the excessive printing of lists would be avoided and a “cleaner” campaign would be carried out from the point of view of the voters. environmental. Along these lines, he also confirmed that no posters will be placed on the columns during the general elections in October.
Meanwhile, once Mieres’ project is presented, it is necessary to obtain two-thirds of the vote in Parliament in order to modify the legal framework and carry out the change in method, an objective that the presidential candidate has for the departmental and municipal elections of 2025.
According to Law 7,812, Article 10 establishes that “the suffrage “It will be exercised through voting lists, which must have the names of the candidates printed on them and be made of common paper, white in color and of a uniform size for each election” and “the Court will determine their dimensions at least 30 days before the elections.”
So far, Mieres’ initiative is not a priority in the political arena, although his project is part of a test carried out during the internal elections in June, when a fingerprint scanner was tested in about 500 circuits out of a total of 2,521 in the Montevideo municipality.
Source: Ambito