Young people who turn 16 between the general elections and the runoff will not be able to vote

Young people who turn 16 between last October 22 – when the presidential election was held – and next November 19 – when the second round is held – They will not be able to vote even though the law allows them to. It is because the same registry will be used for the runoff as a week ago and they were not registered there because they were not of legal voting age.

This was established by the National Electoral Chamber – as it had anticipated last week Infobae– in an agreement that was issued last Thursday in which it regulated a series of aspects for the second round that are not contemplated in the law.

In one of these points, the Chamber indicated that for the runoff “The same citizens who made up the electoral body of the October 22 election will be authorized to participate, so that the same registry will be used, which is published for consultation on the Court’s website.”

On the register that was used last Sunday were all the young people of 16 and 17 years old who turned that age until the date of the election, October 22. Even in the PASO elections in August, young people who were not old enough to vote voted. “To prepare the registry and print it, a closing date is needed because it is a job that takes time. And there is no logistical time now to modify it,” judicial sources explained to this medium.

Boys and girls aged 16 and 17 can vote but are not obliged to do so. The registry for this election is 35,815,436 people, of which 5.5 percent are young people between 16 and 17 years old.

The judges of the Electoral Chamber, Alberto Dalla Vía, Santiago Corcuera and Daniel Bejas, They issued the agreed extraordinary 150 on Thursday in which they regulated a series of points that are not legally fixed for the second round. In one of them they confirmed that the table authorities and voting places will be the same as in the general election.

“It should be clarified that the same establishments and voting tables will be maintained, which will be run by the same citizens who were designated as authorities, except in those cases in which the National Electoral Boards deem it necessary to replace them,” the court ruled.

Another aspect is the ballots that will be used in the runoff. Photos of the formula Sergio Massa-Agustín Rossi of Union for the Homeland and that of Javier Milei-Victoria Villarruel of La Libertad Avanza will be the same as on the general election ballots.

“That the National Electoral Code does not contemplate an instance of officializing the voting ballot models of the groups participating in the second round,” the court explained and added that thus the law “was considered unnecessary to use different ballots in the second round.” of those made official for the first.”

But the judges pointed out that the runoff ballots cannot have the date of October 22. They may have the date of November 19 or none at all.

The Chamber also regulated the advertising spaces in the media for the candidates, the spending limit for the campaign and the continuity of the economic-financial managers who were appointed for the general election and ratified the November 12 debate to be held in the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires between Massa and Milei.