At minutes before noon and almost four hours before the start of election day, in Ciudad Juárez only 56 percent of the polling stations predefined by the National Electoral Institute have opened (INE).
The above according to information shared by the president of the Municipal Electoral Assembly (AME), Olga Hernandez Hernandezhaving a total of 1,275 screens installed throughout the town.
In the entity, the INE planned the installation of 5,785 boxes; For Ciudad Juárez, it defined the installation of 2,244 boxes, of which 1,197 will be of the basic type; thousand 013 contiguous; 22 extraordinary; and 12 specials.
The Institute’s portal states that throughout the state there is an advance of the 60.84% of boxes reported for the start of its operation.
The impact has also reached special boxes, such as the one located at the College of High School Students of the State of Chihuahua (cobach) campus 7, located in the Nuevo Juárez neighborhood, which in the absence of officials asked four citizens in line to join the process.
Likewise, in one of the most crowded spaces such as the Central Parkan emblematic recreation site and a recurring site for special polling stations, the opening of the voting centers had not been consolidated after 10:00 in the morning.
Some party representatives have expressed concern about the lack of voting points throughout the municipality.
“I would like to know what we can do as a party because it is very worrying that there are so few open boxes, it is worrying.”said Héctor Ortiz Orpinel, representative of the National Regeneration Movement party (Morena).
Neighbors have organized to respond, even convening in groups through social networks to complete the number of polling station officials required for the elections.
“I participated in 2021, they told me when I arrived because they were missing people and my neighbor and I came. Now people were also missing and we support here at the Rafael Ramírez primary school. It is easy and it is to be friendly, you know the neighbors and then you welcome them”, commented citizen Martha Laura.
With a poblation of more than 988 thousand people, the large state has an electoral roll of three million 71 thousand 574 citizens; being 755 thousand 279 in the city of Chihuahua; and one million 299 thousand 621 in Ciudad Juárez.
In Chihuahua, 879 popularly elected local positions will be voted on; 67 town councils; 712 councils; 67 receiverships; 22 deputations by relative majority; and 11 deputations by proportional representation.
The entity has a registry of 5,829 people for the participation of its citizens from abroad, of which 2,799 are women and 3,030 are men. Among this population, online voting was preferred with 3,840 registrations for this route; 1,739 will do so by post; and 196 in person at any of the 23 voting centers that will be installed in the United States, Europe and Canada.
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