The National Electoral Council (CNE) has just decided on the elections outside Ecuador: the vote will be repeated for national and foreign members of the assembly. Telematic voting failed. In addition to explanations, it is serious that doubts may arise about the process from which transparency and reliability are expected.

The CNE is certainly most interested in shedding light on what happened on August 20. At the very least, those responsible for the software being fragile need to get to know each other and make sure contractual guarantees are met so migrants can vote.

409,250 Ecuadorians are registered abroad, of which 123,854 registered on the electronic voting platform: 51,643 were able to do so. The preliminary report of the election observation mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) recommends investigating the problems in the computer platform and suggests a review of the guarantees offered by the technological system for telematic voting.

On the same day of the election, there was a controversy in the CNE regarding the complaints of migrants, ending with stories of cyber attacks from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia and China.

For now, there is no date for repeating the elections in the districts of Europe, Asia and Oceania; United States and Canada; and Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. For them, the August 20 election was annulled, but the repeat will be only for the legislature.

The CNE makes it clear that this does not affect the result of the presidential election. The participation of migrants represents 3.04% of the vote weight.

There are political groups that have expressed their opposition to the repetition. The number of voters who will return to the polls will be known on the day of their announcement. The CNE is obliged to guarantee that nothing goes wrong and to all sectors, to support transparency in the historic process for the country. (OR)