Particle.news

Download on the App Store

Argentina Shifts to Single Paper Ballot as Santa Fe Sets Order and Mendoza Details Two‑Urn Voting

Local rollout now emphasizes polling‑place procedures to make the new ballot simpler to use.

Image
Image
Las urnas para las elecciones nacionales y provinciales estarán distinguidas por colores. 
La Justicia Electoral sorteó el orden de aparición de los partidos en la Boleta Única de Papel, que debuta en las elecciones nacionales.

Overview

  • Under Law 27.781, October’s legislative elections will use the Boleta Única de Papel, where voters mark a single sheet, fold it and place it in the urn without envelopes; leaving it unmarked counts as a blank vote and multiple marks annul it.
  • In Santa Fe, electoral authorities held a public draw to fix the order of parties on the ballot for nine deputy seats, with 16 lists participating and final designs due for approval on September 1.
  • Mendoza outlined concurrent voting with two separate ballots and two urns distinguished by color, using celeste for the national ballot and green for the provincial ballot.
  • Polling places in concurrent elections will have a president and two vocales who guide voters to the correct urns, with a seated privacy cabina for marking choices before depositing each ballot.
  • The BUP carries a perforated talón with serial data kept off the voter’s sheet, includes a signature space for the mesa president, and has two layout variants depending on whether a district also renews Senate seats.