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Original article: Colombia: Pacto Histórico cuestiona decisión del Consejo Electoral de dar por escrutada votación de los consulados en el exterior
In a statement, Colombia’s Historic Pact voiced its concerns regarding the National Electoral Council’s decision to consider the voting from the country’s consulates abroad as fully scrutinized «without the physical electoral materials from those consulates.»
The political movement argued that this decision was based «on forms that were previously consolidated and digitized from abroad,» which it claims constitutes «a serious violation of the principles of transparency, publicity, contradiction, traceability, verifiability, and citizen control that should govern all electoral actions.»
According to the Historic Pact, «the scrutiny cannot be limited to mere reading or validation of previously consolidated data, but must allow for effective confrontation between the reported results and the original electoral documents that support the will expressed by citizens at the polls.»
«What happened today means that the results from abroad were declared scrutinized without political organizations, electoral witnesses, and citizens having the essential materials to exercise control, make observations, or verify the correspondence between the reported data and the actual votes cast by the voters,» emphasized members of the collective.
«This situation is extremely serious and creates an irreversible opacity over the electoral process; over 600,000 citizens voted abroad, with many procedures and practices that could have substantially altered the results,» the Historic Pact finally warned, demanding that the scrutiny «be conducted allowing for confrontation between the reported results and the original electoral documents.»
Read the full statement below:
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