The polls can only be opened for three reasons: a prominent explained specialist are

The final scrutiny that will determine the final result of the provincial elections in Córdoba began this Wednesday. The Juntos por el Cambio candidate, Luis Juez, asked that the polls be opened for the recount but the Law establishes only three reasons for this to happen.

in dialogue with mailthe journalistic program that is broadcast by channel Cthe lawyer specializing in electoral law, Jose Perez Cortirigorously they are the causes that, in the framework of the final scrutiny, authorize the opening of the polls.

“The definitive scrutiny is the only legally valid”, stated the professor in Electoral Law, to clear up doubts in this regard after the scandal caused by the technical and logistical failures and the delay in the provisional scrutiny through the Turing system contracted by the Justice of Córdoba to the companies OCASA and MSA for these elections. .

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The final scrutiny that began this Wednesday consists of the review of the tally sheets of each table, those that are not placed inside the ballot boxes, which will be validated by the prosecutors of each party and by the representatives of the Electoral Tribunal. If they all agree, the data goes to the official computing center.

Pérez Corti explained that each ballot box has in inside a copy of the scrutiny act and that can only be withdrawn if an incident of force majeure occurs. That is the first hypothesis that the law establishes for the opening of a ballot box.

“The possibility of the documentation that goes outside the ballot box getting wet, torn, lost, confused or someone making a mistake is always taken into account, so that is compensated by looking for the minutes that are inside the ballot box. It is recorded that the security belt was withdrawn ”, he explained.

The second hypothesis that the legislation provides for opening a ballot box is that inside “some other type of material or documentation has been placed that needs to be rescued”. The specialist gave as an example that a voter has forgotten the DNI and the polling station authority has decided to “keep” it inside the ballot box so that the electoral body can return it.

In this circumstance, the same procedure is carried out: the security belt is removed with the prosecutors present, the material is removed and the tape is placed again in front of the authorities.

And the third expected hypothesis occurs when “the tally sheets do not exist or the copies are not sufficiently consolidated because they cannot be read, are incomplete or the mother numbers do not match the number of votes cast, there it proceeds to open it and only at that moment is the scrutiny done with the ballots,” said Pérez Corti.

Criticism of the Turing system

The president of the Electoral Tribunal of Córdoba, Marta Vidal, had presented the Turing system as a novel method, assisted by “artificial intelligence” for the transmission of data that would allow speedy provisional scrutiny. But failed.

andres piazzaCordovan lawyer and specialist in Internet law, also explained in Posta that, in reality “it was not an artificial intelligence system”. Rather, “it was text-recognising and had a simple task: count four fields and transmit that information to a data processing center.”

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The interviewee also clarified that the legitimacy of the election “will be based on what happens in the final count with the paper records signed by the prosecutors” and not with the flawed results of the provisional count.

“What the Electoral Code asked the Electoral Justice in 2008 is to create state programs for the elections, but what was done is rent a service that does not change the objective. This Electoral Tribunal shows that it is not qualified”, he questioned.