Overview

• The Dirección Nacional Electoral unveiled a live online simulator enabling voters to practice marking one choice per category, folding the ballot and avoiding invalid votes.
• In Tucumán, electoral authorities released province-specific guidance for 375 mesas and 1.34 million electors, including a dual‐system arrangement in Juan Bautista Alberdi where BUP applies only to national deputies.
• Electoral magistrates have called for reinforced custody and traceability of numbered talonarios, secured deliveries signed by mesa presidents and scheduled a September hearing to review sample ballots.
• Contracts for printing an estimated 44 million ballots were pre-awarded this month to five firms under Decreto 1049/2024, centralizing full-color, executive-printed ballots across all districts.
• Security measures include banning ballot photography, replacing traditional dark rooms with voting cabins, issuing ballots equal to registered voters plus a 5 percent contingency and requiring each ballot to bear the mesa president’s signature.