The Chamber of Deputies returns to session this Tuesday with two bills that could become law: the Single Paper Ballotwhich would modify the form of vote in next year’s electionsand the declaration of emergency in the province of Córdoba approved in the Senate. In addition, the plan is voted on Comprehensive approach against Organized Crimea substantial security reform.
The official arch and the spaces considered dialogue-oriented accompany the initiative sanctioned in the Senate. From Freedom Advanceswho is not the author of the project Single Paper Ballotpropose that this system could promote greater transparency and even some of its members, as the Rio Negro expressed Lorena Villaverde in DiputadosTV, they propose that it would put an end to a fraudulent electoral scheme that in Argentina has no concrete historical antecedents at the national level: “We were used to a system that has vices that caused fraud to exist, it seems to me that that defines it as a corrupt system.”
The ruling party, together with its allies, managed to rule this Monday on the final project that replicates the ballot model used in the province of Mendoza, approved in half a sanction in the Senate. The only disagreement that existed between the blocks that adhere to the electoral reform was the possibility of voting from a complete list in a single box. Governors of provinces close to Casa Rosada and referenced with the legislative bench of Federal Innovation pressured so that this modality – which does not benefit them given that they represent provincial parties and do not have a presidential candidate – does not advance in the venue-
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Session in Deputies: what issues are voted on in Congress
At the beginning of the session, it was advanced with a packet of approvals in international conventions and treatiesin addition to the authorization of diplomatic specifications. With an unusual joint push from the PRO and Unión por la Patria, the National Regime of Intangible Cultural Heritageto manage specific actions aimed at the preservation of customs and traditions.
At the same time, Union for the Homeland called a press conference where he made reference to the university march which will be held on October 2 and mentioned the draft resolution in repudiation of the President of the Nation for his derogatory comments to the representative Victoria Tolosa Paz and the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
On the other hand, it would obtain general consensus to convert the declaration of Environmental, Economic and Housing Emergency in areas affected by fires in Córdoba territorywhich implies a redirection of aid funds for the victims and the facilitation of credit for the reconstruction of homes.
After what was the sanction of the expansion of the National Registry of Genetic Datathe ruling party is enthusiastic about the approval of two new projects linked to the security: the reform of Law No. 26,216 on Firearms – which makes the protocol for legal access to possession of firearms more flexible – and the Comprehensive Approach against Organized Crimealso called Anti-Mafia law, which increases and unifies penalties for people who are attributed to being part of a criminal organization, in addition to increase the powers of the security forces.
Single Paper Ballot: what the project says
In the Single Paper Ballot All the candidates competing for the same position are displayed, so the voter expresses his vote by marking boxes for the parties or electoral fronts for each category. (president, governor, deputy, mayor, councilor, etc.).
Photos of the list holders can be seen next to the logo and name of the space for which they are competing, while the substitute candidates only appear with their names. This way, The votes for different lists would no longer be assembled by cutting the ballot but rather by marking the different alternatives with a pencil or pen.
The project stipulates a prior explanatory disclosure process -both for voters and for polling station authorities- of the voting modality.
Source: Ambito
