Last Monday, Jalisco’s Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute (IEPC)—the body responsible for overseeing this state’s elections for governor, legislature and 125 mayorships and city councils—began the task of issuing constancias (ratification certificates) to the winning candidates in the June 2 local elections.
IEPC has spent the past week verifying and tabulating the votes from 10,863 polling stations installed around the state.
“Every vote was counted and counted well,” IPEC President Paula Ramírez Hohne told reporters, noting that more than half (54 percent) of the “ballot packages” received at IPEC’s municipal and district headquarters were reopened and recounted in front of representatives of different political parties.
Ramírez quashed the absurd allegations made by the Morena Party shortly after the first results came in on Sunday that 700,000 votes had mysteriously “gone missing” from the gubernatorial race. She did acknowledge that some minor “human errors” were committed on election day—including the tardy delivery of some ballot boxes to election headquarters—but none influenced the results.
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