Overview

• Mexicans voted on June 1 to fill more than 2,600 judicial positions at federal and state levels, including all nine Supreme Court seats
• Preliminary data from the National Electoral Institute put participation at roughly 12.6–13.3 percent of eligible voters, far below last year’s 61 percent in the presidential race
• President Claudia Sheinbaum praised the vote as a key measure to purge corruption, and electoral authorities plan to complete the count by mid-June
• Observers and experts highlight widespread voter confusion over multicolored, information-thin ballots as a factor in the low engagement
• Rights group Defensorxs identified about 20 ‘high-risk’ candidates with past convictions or cartel ties, stoking fears of partisan or criminal influence in the courts