Starting at 8 this Sunday, the voting centers will receive the more than 2.7 million Uruguayans authorized to vote.
The elections 2024They open this Sunday from 8 in the morning, with 2,727,120 voters qualified in a total of 7,225 voting circuits, where the Uruguayans They will elect the next president or at least the two contenders in an eventual runoff, while they will also define the composition of the Parliament and the luck of the plebiscites on night raids and social security reform.
Until 7:30 p.m., citizens will be able to go to the voting centers to cast their vote. If you do not know the established place, it is possible to consult here the electoral roll to know the place where to cast the vote.
In this case, unlike the internal ones, going to the polls is mandatory, so those who do not cast their vote will have to pay a fine of 1 Resettable Unit (UR)equivalent to 1,740.23 pesos, which will be double for public officials or professionals with titles issued by the University of the Republic (UdelaR).
Once the voting has concluded, except in exceptional cases where it must be extended due to the presence of voters in the premises, the opening of envelopes and the counting will begin to define, foreseeably before midnight, whether there is an elected president or two rivals for a runoff., in addition to knowing the elected legislators and the fate of the initiatives on the health system social security and the night raids.
The step by step of the vote
To cast the vote, one of the main requirements imposed by the Electoral Court is to have the civic credential, the valid document to vote. Those who do not have the physical document may do so in the same way, but they will have to go to the circuit that corresponds to them and indicate their name, surname along with the series and number of their credential if they remember it.
Once it is proven that the citizen did not previously vote, the members of the Vote Receiving Commission will write down their information, the voter will take an envelope, show the strip number and will be invited to go to the secret room, in which you cannot remain for more than two minutes.
Once the process is finished, the voter will cut the strip of the envelope in front of the Commission (if they do it before, they must repeat the procedure), which will verify that the number corresponds to the one on the ordinal list. The documentation will then be returned to you and you will be given the proof of vote to the voter, who will proceed to leave the premises.
The 11 presidential candidates
The presidential candidates will be 11, among which stand out Yamandu Orsi (Wide Front), Alvaro Delgado (National Party) and Andres Ojeda (Colorado Party), while other members of the coalition also appear such as Guido Manini Ríos (Open Town Hall) and Pablo Mieres (Independent Party).
They will also apply Gustavo Salle (Sovereign Identity), Gonzalo Martinez (Popular Unity), Eduardo Lust (Environmental Constitutionalist Party), Cesar Vega (Intransigent Radical Ecological Party), Guillermo Franchi (For Necessary Changes) and Martin Perez Banchero (Advance Republican).
Source: Ambito
