On Sunday (22nd), while images of the Argentine elections were circulating on social networks, one fact attracted the attention of Brazilians: the ballot papers. The lists, in the form of foldable paper inserts, are led by the presidential candidate, but they also print the names of candidates for other controversial positions, who are part of the same alliance.
But this does not mean that the vote is binding. If the voter prefers to vote for candidates from other coalitions, must cut out the desired names in other stacks of cells with scissors, put everything in an envelope and insert it into the ballot box. If you only vote for candidates from a single alliance, simply fold the leaflet and put it in the ballot box.
In Sunday’s “general elections” Argentines voted to elect, in addition to the president, deputies, senators, governors (in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Rios) and mayor (in Buenos Aires). The way of voting requires that, in addition to the DNI, issued by the Registro Nacional de las Personas, the voter also brings scissors to the electoral tables.
How does the “boleta cut” work?
. @arielpalacios shows what paper ballots look like for voting in elections in Argentina.
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In a post on the social network X with over 3.2 million views, the columnist of GloboNews, Ariel Palacios, explains how to vote in our neighboring country: “You have to take scissors, cut very well cut, otherwise they might cancel your vote. [Em seguida] Go to the other pile, take it [a outra cédula]cut along the dotted line… This is called cutting the ballot (the ballot paper).”
The system, which can be considered archaic compared to our electronic voting machine, has a direct impact on election results. Since people, according to Palácios, do not have much patience in cutting out ballots, they prefer to take the entire piece of paper, fold it and put it in the urn, which implies a parliamentary majority for the elected president.
This time, however, the situation was reversed. The candidate Sergio Massa obtained the highest number of votes in the first round of the presidential elections, but his party, Union for the Fatherland, lost ten seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The second most voted in the presidential elections, Javier Milei, saw his party, La Libertad Avanza, win 34 new seats in the Chamber and eight in the Senate. “This further complicates the political plan of the next government”, as Palácios had predicted.
Source: Terra
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