Should jurors offer the consultation card?: the shocking topic of the day
The campaigns have clashed throughout the day regarding the offering of the presidential consultation card at the polling stations. Aspirants participating in the process have complained that there are places where jurors do not ask voters if they want to vote in the primaries. On the other hand, the Petrismo, which has called not to vote in the consultations after the National Electoral Council disqualified Iván Cepeda, has formulated the opposite question: they point out that some jurors ask the voter if they want to participate and denounce that this is “inducing the vote.”
Claudia López, a candidate in the Consultation of Solutions, has indicated that she has “hundreds of reports of people who are not informed, offered and delivered the Consultation card, in Barranquilla, the Caribbean and in the country.” “The Registrar’s Office staff does nothing. Even the Ombudsman’s Office has had to intervene. A clear violation of electoral guarantees,” he denounced. The far-right Vicky Dávila, who competes in La Gran Consulta, has commented something similar in a message in which she asks the Registry for explanations: “Many people tell me that they are not offered the consultation card at the voting station.”
Senator María José Pizarro, head of debate for the Cepeda campaign, has crossed Dávila in Representative María Fernanda Carrascal, who aspires to renew her seat in the lower house, has also spoken out in a message addressed to the Registry Office. “It is totally irregular that they offer the presidential consultation card to voters. They are inducing the vote.”
The national registrar, Hernán Penagos, pointed out in January that the jurors have the obligation to inform about the consultation: “On March 8, the jurors will deliver two electoral cards, that of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and at the same time they have the duty to inform citizens of the existence of an additional card for the consultations and the citizen will decide if they want to exercise it, that is, vote for it.” The same is stated in an information sheet that the Registry issued with guidelines for this Sunday.
