An electoral reform would allow people in pretrial detention to vote without obstacles in prisons for the 2024 presidential electionsrevealed a study by the Belisario Domínguez Institute (IBD).
According to the study called “Electoral voting models for people in pretrial detention: selected countries”, since 2019 the Mexican electoral authorities organized a first pilot test to guarantee this right to this entire population.
This, at the request of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF), which, in 2019, resolved that people in pretrial detention have the right to vote like any other citizenalthough they lose this guarantee due to their legal status, according to Mexican law.
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In this sense, the National Electoral Institute (INE) carried out a pilot test in 2021 in order to guarantee said prerogative, which had a participation result of over 94% in five Mexican prisons.
The IBD study, belonging to the Mexican Senate, and prepared by researchers Juan Manuel Rodríguez and Miguel Ángel Barrón, revealed that said order provides that this right be guaranteed for the 2024 electionswhen a new president of Mexico will be elected for a period of six years.
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Said analysis of the IBD of the Mexican Senate highlights that at least four Ibero-American countries such as Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain already have some regulation based on which the right to vote of people in preventive detention is guaranteed.
The researchers recalled that to guarantee this right, the INE launched a series of obstacles that could hinder the vote of Mexican inmates.
The main one: the need to design coordination schemes with the authorities of the detention centers, which allow the implementation of electoral procedures and the generation of conditions that strengthen the exercise of suffrage.
In this sense, they also pointed out the need to design coordination schemes with the authorities of the detention centers, as well as to analyze and propose to the Mexican authorities scenarios that allow the participation of people or organizations interested in the vote of people in pretrial detention. inside Mexican detention centers.
The voting model developed by the INE for the vote of people in pretrial detention only regulated the pilot test for the 2020-2021 federal electoral process. However, for the 2024 and subsequent elections, there is still no general voting model or regulatory framework for its preparation. As regards the models”, the IBD researchers concluded in their study.
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