Registrar sends a report to the Office of the Prosecutor and Prosecutor's Office in which there would be evidence of irregularities of juries

On Tuesday, the National Civil Registry sent a technical report to the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Attorney General's Office on Tuesday, which would show alleged irregularities of the voting juries during the questioned legislative elections held on March 13.

The document produced by the electoral organization reports inconsistencies in 5,109 voting stations throughout the national territory, in which errors had been filed in the completion of E-14 forms and was sent to state agencies to determine possible criminal or disciplinary liability in which may have been incurred.

“According to an analysis carried out by the National Electoral Census Directorate and the Computer Management of the National Registry Office of all the E-14 forms of delegates that were filled out at the polling stations of the past elections to the Congress of the Republic, it was found that 22,255 had inconsistencies ranging from contrary to the instructions given during the training conducted by the entity,” said the Registrar's Office.

He also noted that in the analysis, which took place almost a month after the contested elections were held, irregularities were detected in the processing of voting records reporting votes such as the “use of asterisks in cells where voting by candidates or parties was not recorded” or the “use of stripes, crosses, crosses, lines, among others throughout the form, making it difficult to identify the vote of candidates or parties”.

Similarly, the Registrar indicated that errors of processing were identified in the three bodies of the E-14 (delegates, clavers and transmitters), as well as forms in which juries recorded the candidate's code, in the place where the number of votes should have been referred to or in which they made corrections to the errors made in the diligence of voting.

At the same time, transmission forms were identified that were issued with zero votes or that had crossed out votes that had already been completed, which would show that once the data had been entered to the candidates, they were crossed out so that they could not be transmitted (or that the absence of signatures was identified on the forms, which would cause the invalidation of the bureau).

This report of the Registrar was submitted two weeks after the entity and the national registrar were questioned by different political parties, candidates and sectors of civil society, who argued that there were many doubts about the legitimacy of the Congressional election process in which thousands of irregularities, as the entity has so far noted.

This document was also announced five days after registrar Alexander Vega confirmed the changes to the criticized E-14 forms for the first presidential round and a day after it became known that a hearing will be held in front of the lawsuit that seeks to knock the official out of office.

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