More than 13 million Ecuadorians are called to the polls on Sunday, February 5, 2023, to participate in the vote for the sectional elections, the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS) and the referendum.
23 provincial prefects and vice-prefects, 221 mayors, 864 urban councillors, 443 rural councillors, 4,109 members of the parish councils and 7 main and alternate councilors of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS) will be elected.
Ecuadorians between the ages of 18 and 65 with the right to vote are obliged to vote and persons of legal age deprived of their liberty without an enforceable conviction.
Citizens of urban areas will receive seven ballots to choose mayor, prefect and vice-prefect, councilors, members of the CPCCS and the referendum. Those in rural areas one more in order to designate the members of the parish councils.
The forms of voting are varied. In the case of the referendum, one of the two options is chosen (yes or no) by placing a check mark in the preference box.
The vote is by iron in the case of urban and rural councilors and members of the parish councils choosing a preference list in which you vote for that entire group of applicants.
After voting, the ballots for mayors and prefects must go in the white ballot box.
Those of councilors, members of the boards, those of the CPCCS and the referendum, in the brown one.
After 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, the National Electoral Council estimates that it has the first results of the mayoral vote and the referendum
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null and blank votes
Invalid or blank votes are not counted in declaring winners. Only valid votes are used to win the elections.
Votes will be considered valid issued in the ballots provided by the Vote Receiving Board (JRV) and that in any way express in an intelligible way the will of the voter, indicates Art. 125 of the Electoral Law.
Article 126 of the Organic Electoral Law indicates that will be considered as invalid votes:
- Those that contain marks for more than one candidate or, depending on the case, binomial, in one-person elections;
- When the voter marks more than one list in multi-person elections or expresses her preference for candidates between lists.
- Those that carry the words “null” or “annulled”, or other similar ones, or those that have erasures that clearly demonstrate the will to annul the vote. Those that do not have any mark will be considered blank votes.
Art. 163 of this norm indicates that for the prefectural and vice-prefectural elections, binomials will be presented that will appear on the same ballot and The winners will be proclaimed to those who have obtained the highest number of votes.
In the elections for metropolitan district mayors and municipal mayors, the candidate who would have obtained the highest number of votes. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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