Elections 2024: delay in opening polls and special polling stations in CDMX generates citizen annoyance

Tens of citizens expressed their discontent and annoyance due to the delay that was generated in the opening of boxes and in special boxes in different municipalities of the Mexico City.

Citizens who lined up from 6 in the morning or from 7, could not vote until after nine in the morning due to the delays that occurred in their different polling stations, and special polling stations due to the lack of organization of the officials. of polling stations, the lack of electoral material or the absence of personnel to operate the polling stations.

The box in section 4748, located in the Old Archbishop’s Palace, where President Andrés Manuel López Obrador voted, had a delay of 20 minutes.

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In fact, although there was already a line, the President and his wife, Dr. Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, were the first to cast their votes.

The box corresponding to section 1373, located in the Gustavo A. Madero delegation, began operations one hour late, which generated the annoyance of citizens who denounced a lack of coordination and training on the part of the representatives of the INE.

“What a bad organization, we arrived at 6:30 in the morning, it is 9:00 in the morning and they don’t open, the polling station representatives are not trained,” denounced Jorge Ramírez, first in line.

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“You get disappointed, 6 years ago it was faster, the sleepless night was in vain,” declared Mrs. Irma González.

José Hernández declared that he must go to work today, so he was about to leave the booth due to the delay.

“It is very annoying because some of us have to go to work and we have to come early, we all want to exercise the right to vote but it is difficult like this,” he said.

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Almost one after the opening of the boxes, the special electronic box of the Six-Year Plan in the Miguel Hidalgo mayor’s office does not open, so there is already dissatisfaction among the people who arrived before 7 in the morning.

The line of approximately more than a thousand people is already going around the sports car.

After nine in the morning he opened the special box.

The section 260 box in the Azcapotzalco mayor’s office opened until 9:00 a.m., an hour longer than expected, which generated annoyance among citizens who claimed that they should go to work.

Box 5043 of the Miguel Hidalgo mayor’s office, located in Golfo de Gabes, registered a delay of more than an hour, which caused annoyance among educated citizens, as many argued that they had to go to work.

With a delay of more than an hour, the polling station in section 4870 in the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office began to receive voters who took it patiently and it was at 9:00 a.m. when it began to flow.

Another reason that caused citizens’ anger is the lack of organization because many officials arrived late, did not organize the voters and gave priority to the elderly as they arrived.

The box in section 720 located in Huihuitla alley, Coyoacán mayor’s office, where the Secretary of the Interior, Luisa María Alcalde, voted, had a delay of 30 minutes.

With information from Antonio López, Alberto Morales, Otilia Carvajal, Daniela Wachauf, Yalina Ruiz, Iván Montaño

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