Simple, fast, cheaper and with less probability of fraud. The single ballot that Argentines use abroad makes the system easier and more reliable, while the debate about its use in Argentina remains latent.
The “vote of voters residing abroad” is a page where the two ballots to elect president and vice president are together. Below you can see Sergio Massa on the left, Javier Milei on the right. Photos of both candidates and a box to check.
“Less spending, less environmental impact, greater transparency,” said the leader of Together for Change Diego Valenzuela. And he completed: “Hopefully next year we will be encouraged to change this and vote with a single ballot in 2025.” From some accounts that campaign for La Libertad Avanza they also asked to go towards that system.
In the country, meanwhile, one of the main problems being debated is about the possible missing or adulterated ballots. In fact, in the first hours of the elections they arrested a 16-year-old teenager in Parque Patricios who had stolen Javier Milei’s ballots from a dark room, according to federal electoral judge María Servini.
Journey.
Each of the stories of Argentines living abroad are particular. But what Mariel Schaab, who lives in the Netherlands, said, caught attention on social networks. The woman had to make quite a journey to get to the Argentine Consulate in The Hague to cast her vote.
“First leg by bike, second leg by taxi, third leg by three trains and fourth leg by tram,” said the woman who traveled 132 kilometers from her home to The Hague.
Then, he revealed the reason for the problem: “The Government of Alberto Fernández took away the ‘vote by mail’ but there is nothing that encourages us more than exercising our Democratic and Constitutional Right to vote for a better future for our country.”
