Five days after the election, the opposition continues to sow doubts about the interim scrutiny and transmission of that data, which on Sunday night will establish the first results of the STEPS. The conflict is generated around the Venezuelan company SmartMatic, in charge of the digital transmission of data on Sunday night: through its proxy Jorge Landau, Peronism requested “the immediate departure” for Sunday elections.
Landau argued in the letter that “the implementation of the contracted service (by the national state) injures, restricts and alters in a current and imminent way the rights and powers of the political parties” and of the candidates who will compete. The aim of the Justice Party is that sunday night does not have a different result between the mouth of the urn and the provisional scrutiny. It should be noted that days after the election the final count, carried out by the Electoral Justice and that it will evacuate any doubts, but the CLAIM of the FTD is oriented to Sunday’s election day.
He recalls that the results of the Provisional Scrutiny are informative and that the only result of legal value is that of the final count of Electoral Justice 48 hours after the vote #Elecciones2019 — Interior Ministry ( @MinInteriorAR)
August 1, 2019
“The new system of digitization and transmission affects the rights of all citizens to information and to participate in a transparent election, which generates certainty about the results and, therefore, the legitimacy of the authority of the representatives get elected,” Landau said.The most immediate conflictante antecedente is of the PASO 2017, where in the province of Buenos Aires the scrutamiento stopped at 95%, at the same time that Cristina Kirchner traced the result on Esteban Bullrich. Weeks later, the interim count ended up giving him the difference stakes in his favour, which the Change candidate would then reverse in the general election.
