For him next Sunday they will open in Mexico approximately 170 thousand polling stations starting at 8 in the morning. They close at 6 in the afternoon and until vote the last person with a voting card with a photograph of the INE formed in line. They will be in charge of the choice about 1.5 million citizens as officials of those 170 thousand boxes (INE: https://centralelectoral.ine.mx/2023/09/13/para-las-elecciones-2024-aumentara-el-numero-de-casillas-que-se-installaran-el- election-day-day/ ). In the next few days there will be closures of federal electoral campaigns of the candidates and candidate to the presidency of the Republiche Senatethe Chamber of Deputies. Also, there will be the closing of campaigns in local elections. In the case of Sinaloa, they will be the candidates for municipal presidencies and deputies to the State Congress.
In these elections there is a fact that will make history in Mexico, the electoral preferences, from practically all the surveys, indicate that a woman will be elected to the presidency of the republic for the first time.
More than 99 million Mexican men and women will be able to vote. Being the voters women more, 52% and 48% men. 51.4 million female citizens and 47.6 million male citizens will be able to vote. As can be seen, there are 4% more women with voting credentials than men in our country (INE: https://repositoriodocumental.ine.mx/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/153578/Numeralia-PEF-2023-2024. pdf).
All those millions of potential voters will decide, first of all, whether they are going to vote. Then, who they will vote for. Afterwards, the more than a million and a half polling station officials will be in charge of counting the votes and filling out the minutes, to finally put the result of each election on the cards that will be posted outside each polling station. Finally, the minutes are taken to the corresponding district council of the INE, in the case of federal elections. In the local election, they are transferred to the local municipal and district councils, in Sinaloa in the case of the elections of municipal presidents and local deputies.
From there the review of the minutes by the councils will begin, where there are representatives of the parties and candidates. The session of each council is declared permanent, and continues until the district minutes corresponding to each election are drawn up.
On civic day
Tens of millions of Mexican men and women will be able to go to vote next Sunday. The polls will be organized and cared for by citizens: more than one and a half million citizens will serve as electoral officials that Sunday. As can be seen, the election is a democratic process where society is the one that organizes, counts and makes public the result. It is the guarantee of a democratic process where only one candidate will obtain the majority of votes in each of the elections. the elections that will take place. And that majority of votes will make that political option representative of the citizens of its district, municipality, state and in the presidency of the republic. Each of the elected officials will remain in office for three or six years. Then, other elections will come and, there again, the citizens will decide if they follow the same party or there is a change. This is democracy: possibility of alternation and free and secret voting.
Paragraphs: Accountability and possibility of alternation
In the electoral process that includes every democratic regime there is the exercise of these two elements. The majority of citizens are the ones who decide who will govern by majority vote. Everyone who meets the requirements can have their photo voting card and exercise their right to free and secret voting. And other citizens will be the ones who count those votes and determine which candidate obtained the majority. The result always reflects, in a democratic election, an exercise of accountability that is represented in the possibility of alternation or continuity of a party in government. To continue analyzing. But it is worth it, especially to go vote next Sunday.
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