Ballot in Uruguay: 80.9% of the voters have already voted

The Electoral Court reported that at 6:15 p.m., 80.9% of the voters had already voted. electoral roll in it runoff 2024, in which Uruguayans elect their next president from among Yamandu Orsi and Alvaro Delgado, good news after the data was lower in October and an exceptional jump when compared to participation in the internal elections, although they were not mandatory.

The data is somewhat higher than that recorded in October, and corresponds to the analysis of 97.84% of the tables throughout the country, according to the Electoral Court. In each circuit, data is uploaded in real time to the system, using a tablet.

The voting stations opened at eight in the morning and voting can be done until 7:30 p.m., throughout the country. It is necessary to remember that there are 2,727,120 enabled, distributed across 7,225 circuits.

The Court recalled that people can come to cast their right to vote even if they do not have a credential and that they only have to indicate their series and number. Meanwhile, rural circuits also accept that citizens vote in another circuit.

When will the winner be announced?

He Minister of the Electoral Court, Joseph Korzeniakforesees delays in announcing the results of the runoff 2024 In case of a very tight difference between the presidential candidate of the Broad Front (FA), Yamandu Orsiand that of National Party (PN), Alvaro Delgado.

The official assured that if the vote were “very even” and depended technically on the observed votesas happened in 2019 in the second round between Luis Lacalle Pou and Daniel Martinezthere would be difficulties in quickly communicating a winner.

“As the observed votes are only scrutinized in the departmental scrutiny and not in the primary one carried out by the Vote Receiving Commissions in front of the delegates when voting hours end, it is likely that there will be difficulties in saying who won,” Korzeniak confirmed.

Regarding when the first data from the primary count will be available, the Minister of the Electoral Court said that they hope to hear from them 1 and a half or 2 hours after the vote counting begins.

“The departmental scrutiny begins on Tuesday, we must scrutinize the votes observed, everything that remained to be resolved, the discrepancies between the minutes transmitted, all the resources, and only then does it end,” Korzeniak continued explaining about a process that “probably” ends on Wednesday the 27th or Thursday the 28th.