The CNE disabled thousands of ID cards in Cesar: at least 17 thousand citizens could not vote

At the moment, election day in the department of Cesar is taking place in total normality as reported by the authorities in that area of ​​the country. However, of the 889,247 citizens registered to exercise their right to vote, an important group has not been able to do so because their IDs were registered in other places in the country.

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“Some arrived at the voting stations and They found that their IDs appear registered in Santa Marta, Cúcuta, Bogotá. Mine appeared in Ocaña, a city where I haven’t been for six years,” one of the residents of Valledupar told El Tiempo.

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For his part, an official from the National Registry of Civil Status, in this department, stated that this situation is due to the fact that through a resolution that was recently issued by the National Electoral Council, It left approximately 17,000 ballots in Cesar without effect to vote.

“I always vote in Valledupar and Now it appears in Manaure (Cesar), as if I lived there or they can take me by express car to that place to be able to vote. How terrible all of this is,” said a woman through her social networks upon learning that she could not vote in the place where she normally did.

Another person who is employed in the city of Valledupar experienced something similar and claims that he is registered in Sisbén, but to his surprise his document appeared registered to vote in La Vega, a township in a rural area of ​​the capital of Cesar.

”It doesn’t seem like an error to me, I think the problem is with the computer system. The problem is why they moved me,” denounced another citizen affected by this measure.

According to data from the Registry, the number of ballots registered for these elections in this department is 77,209, of which 20,547 were registered in the capital of the department, Valledupar.

Likewise, in this department there was 2,732 voting stationsof which 999 are located in different parts of that city (897 in the urban area and 27 in the rural area).

In addition, the voting stations in Valledupar are located in Uparsistem, the Sena, the Andean Area University, and the Pompeyo Educational Institute.

In total, in that department there are 3,591 candidates registered for different corporations, which are distributed as follows: for the Governorship there are nine, Mayor’s Office 157, Assembly one hundred, Council 3,216 and councilors 109.

A delicate situation arises in the municipality of La Paz, Cesar, in which Senator Didier Lobo, belonging to Cambio Radical, warned the authorities about some particular events that are clouding the electoral day in this municipality, which is located at north of the department and where the fire at the headquarters of the Registry, in Gamarra, occurred yesterday.

“We urgently call on the Public Force because in the municipality of La Paz, Cesar, They have taken the school where the largest voting point is”.

After this call, the congressman expressly asked the departmental Government Secretariat, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of the Interior that for no reason allow “a sabotage” in the regional elections in which governors, mayors, councilors and deputies are being elected.

“It has been insisted that we do not see strongly today that the Public Force is prepared nor activating all the protocols to safeguard the democracy of this department,” Lobo concluded.

Likewise, the communicator Diana López Zuleta, through her X account, reported on the delicate situation that exists in this population, and published that: “At this time, riots and confusion in La Paz, Cesar”.

In another publication that journalist López Zuleta uploaded, a group of people are seen arguing and fighting inside one of the facilities of that same voting station.

“What is happening in La Paz is very serious, Cesar. They have knocked down gates; kicks and fights, and there are people who have gone to vote and appear as if they had already voted,” said the journalist in X.

For his part, Jacobo Lozano, who is another journalist from that region, also reported on this fact and cited the publication made by a citizen who said: “Consternation in the municipality of La Paz, cease. To the bad ones. The elections are being stolen for the candidate of the current administration. “They are not letting people vote.”

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