translated from Spanish: Election Abtenationism raised the cost of each vote to 200%

The cost per vote of local elections held in six states of the country rose by an average of 200% due to low citizenship participation.
The reason is simple, the average participation of the nominal list was 33.83%, so more than half of the printed ballots were wasted, not counting the material occupied to install the ballot boxes.
This implies an increase in the cost of each vote, as the budget invested for the election was taken advantage of by a minority.
Quintana Roo is the state where the impact was most noticeable. Each vote cost 1,185 pesos, instead of the 262 pesos it would have cost with the total participation of its electorate.
According to the report on results and implications of the 2019 local elections, made by the consultancy Integralia, in Quintana Roo the budget for the elections was 327.5 million pesos, and its nominal list is one million 247 thousand 995 people, but of these only 22% participated.
In the case of Baja California of 176 pesos the price of each vote rose to 587 pesos. 493.9 million pesos were allocated to the state for nearly three million voters, but the Baja California State Election Institute reported a 29.63% turnout
In Tamaulipas, each vote cost 587 pesos as opposed to the 182 pesos that would have been paid with a higher share. Tamaulipas occupied a budget of 484.5 mdp for its two and a half million voters. The average share in this state was 33%.
In the state of Durango the cost calculated for each vote, with a total turnout, was 233 pesos, but it actually cost 514 pesos, with only 44.8% of its 298 thousand voters coming to the polls. Durango’s budget was 302.5 mdp.
In Aguascalientes each vote cost 393 pesos instead of the 153 that would have been spent without abstentionism. Of its nominal list of 966 thousand 755 people, it voted only 38.9%.
Finally, in Puebla in each vote 336 was spent instead of 112 pesos. Puebla’s budget for elections was 515.3 mdp, while its nominal list is 4 million 584 thousand people, only 33.4% went to the boxes.
According to Integralia’s study, the average participation in these six states was the lowest of the last three elections. The entities in which only the local congress (Tamaulipas and Quintana Roo) were renewed recorded the lowest participation. The most attention-sathing cases were those in Puebla and Baja California, where abstentionism also increased even though governments were defined.
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Original source in Spanish

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