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Argentina Opposition Cries Fraud on New Voting System
Published 31 July 2019 (8 hours 41 minutes ago)
Leaders of Argentina’s coalitions, Front for All and Federal Consensus, along with the Radical Civic Union (UCR) party, presented a letter to the nation’s top electoral body citing "technical problems, irregularities and other inconvenient situations" regarding the country’s newly installed electoral software to be used in the October presidential polls.
“We do not even have the basic documents or passwords, required to properly operate and interpret the system to be used,” said the federal legislators to the National Electoral Chamber (CNE).
“We request that political parties be guaranteed the ability to access the system during the provisional counting, which allows them to consult the (raw) data from each of their polling stations” and then release them to the public, said the lawmakers.
So far, Argentinian officials have tested the nation’s new digital system at least three times, and each time there have been counting errors. Even Front for All presidential candidate, Alberto Fernandez—running mate to former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner—has requested scrapping the digital program and going back to the old system that relies entirely on paper counting.
More:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Argentina-Opposition-Cries-Fraud-on-New-Voting-System-20190731-0018.html