By The Star Staff
Jessika Padilla Rivera, the alternate chairwoman of the State Elections Commission, asked voters on Sunday not to mark an X or a cross on their ballots, because the counting machine cannot read them.
“What we want to avoid is that the machine identifies an x that is not sufficiently blackened as an indeterminate mark and that the interaction time between the machine and the voter is delayed,” Padilla Rivera said in a written statement.
She said the machine will alert voters if it identifies any situation that needs to be corrected.
Padilla Rivera noted that the quadrant or rectangle marked in its entirety, or filled in completely, on the ballot is more effective when read by the electronic counting machine and, consequently, awarded according to the intention of the voter who cast it.
“Before, during and even after the vote, the Commission remains focused on guaranteeing voters a reliable process, with the least possible number of incidents,” she said. “Therefore, we continue to address each of the issues corresponding to this stage of the work, just one day [full] before the final vote.”
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