La Paz.- Bolivia on Saturday initiated the registration of voters for the presidential elections on May 3, which will be enabled for nine days in an impostergible way.” We are going to start the registration, today it starts and ends on January 26 in an imposterable way,” said the departmental director of the Civil Registry Service (Sereci) of La Paz, Diego Tejerina.
The director explained that this process is aimed at people who changed their homes and young people who turn eighteen, the legal age to vote in Bolivia, until May 3. Bolivians must approach the nearest point of registration carrying their original and current identity card, that is the only requirement, according to the director. Nationally there are 700 registration points, of which eleven are in La Paz and eight in the neighboring city of El Alto.Tejerina stressed that voters who voted normally in the annulled elections on October 20 do not need to carry out this process. The procedure takes five minutes in which data is taken from the person performing this process, their fingerprints from both hands, a photograph is taken that measures the facial points and makes a biometric of the irises of the eyes, as a safety measure. The electoral management body announced in the first week of January that the country’s general elections will be held on 3 May and published the electoral calendar. Bolivia will hold the new elections after the election slammed on October 20, in which former President Evo Morales was declared victorious for a fourth consecutive term. Those elections were overturned amid allegations of fraud on behalf of Morales, who on November 10th announced his resignation denouncing a coup to overthrow him.
Morales is located in Argentina. / EFE.
A report by the Organization of American States (OAS) confirmed that there were “failed operations” in the October 20 election, which altered “the will expressed at the ballot box.” The previous electoral management body that managed those elections found it, with its members in pre-trial detention, charged with electoral crimes related to such alleged fraud. The acting president, Jeanine Añez, gave rise to the law that overturned the October vote that allowed new elections to be called.
