The Pichincha Provincial Electoral Board does not currently have any report regarding the partisan campaign carried out by political organizations in favor of candidates for the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), which is prohibited by law.
María Belén Mieles, president of the Electoral Board in Pichincha, said that the control unit is evaluating all these existing irregularities to issue a final report and send it to the National Electoral Council (CNE), so that they can carry out the pertinent procedure before the Contentious Court. Electoral (TEC).
Mieles pointed out that he is unaware that in Pichincha there are cases of political organizations promoting applicants for the CPCCS. Everything that is an early campaign and everything related to the electoral process, is a process that has several instances and deadlines must be respected; therefore, no sanction can be advanced while the TCE, as the highest body, pronounces.
“We are working, we have no results so far,” said Mieles, who announced that everything is ready for the process in Pichincha.
Regarding security in the process, the provincial electoral authority indicated that there is a contingency plan coordinated with the National Police and members of the Armed Forces. “We are ready on the issue of security due to the complexity of the process and the wave of insecurity that the country is experiencing,” said Mieles.
Training and venues
The Institute of Democracy (IDD), trained around 51 thousand police and military personnel within what is the optional vote, and who will also be able to vote next Sunday, February 5.
Edmo Muñoz, director of the Pichincha provincial electoral delegation, pointed out that the 450 precincts are ready; Of these, 292 will be centers for the digitalization of records, from where the results will be transmitted to the electoral processing center. The technical kits of the 342 that will be used for the transmission of results are ready. In Pichincha they are empowered to cover 2`332,731 people.
It revealed that so far 86.43% of the members of the Vote Receiving Boards have been trained for the process, although they will continue to provide this service until election day itself. Likewise, the polling station and venue coordinators who are the facilitators of the members of the Vote Receiving Boards are being trained.
The dispatch of the electoral material to the electoral precincts will be carried out on Friday in all the cantons of the province and the rural parishes of the Quito canton under the custody of the Armed Forces; while on Saturday the material will be dispatched in the urban parishes of the city.
The vote for Persons Deprived of Liberty (PPL) will take place on Thursday, February 2 in three centers in Pichincha, which includes jail 4. There are 240 people authorized to exercise their right to vote. While on Friday the vote will be held at home and there will be 46 beneficiaries. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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