#BoliviaElections The Electoral Branch has decided to withdraw the #DIREPRE or quick vote count system, claims this decision is made to avoid social conflicts as the ones raised after last year’s quick vote count was interrupted, calls for patience until we have oficial results
#BoliviaElections According to the Plurinational Electoral Branch, around 15% of all voters living abroad won't be able to vote due to several reasons including pandemic restrictions in foreign countries. #Bolivia
#BoliviaElections MAS candidate Luis Arce Catacora just voted in Miraflores, La Paz. He indicated the MAS will prioritize the reports of its own party's count system to know the results. #EleccionesBolivia2020#Bolivia
Powerful image today at the official inauguration of our #BoliviaElections
On the left transitional president Jeanine Añez, on the right Legislative Assembly's president Eva Copa & in the middle Salvador Romero, electoral tribunal president. Quite symbolic #EleccionesBolivia2020
#BoliviaElections Truly encouraging HIGH voter turnout today across #Bolivia,many of us were fearing voter turnout would be low due to the pandemic but press+citizens are reporting long queues on voting stations
#BoliviaElections Video going around on social media of MAS candidate Luis Arce being booed as he exited his voting poll. A woman in the area yells at him "Thieves! Pedophiles!"#EleccionesBolivia2020#Bolivia
#BoliviaElections Migration denounces MAS candidate Delfor Burgos for illegally transporting voters through the #Bolivia-Argentina border in his vehicle
Bolivian Migration is opening a legal case against Burgos for electoral crimes #EleccionesBolivia2020
#BoliviaElections Eight cases of electoral material were stolen in Caranavi, La Paz & have just been recovered by police. The president of the Electoral Tribunal just confirmed arrest orders have been enacted against the thieves. #EleccionesBolivia2020
#BoliviaElections Head of the Electoral branch, Salvador Romero, indicates people who could not vote in the morning can do so in the afternoon. The voting order was defined by the last digit on our ID numbers like this:
#BoliviaElections Also in Buenos Aires, Morales conducts a press conference to clarify he is still in Bs Aires, given rumors that he is returning to Bolivia tonight. He however did not respond if he is planning to return to #Bolivia#EleccionesBolivia2020
#BoliviaElections A video going around on social media about marked ballots in Santa Cruz has been discarded. The Police intervened, but no person was arrested, as there was no evidence of the commission of any crime. #EleccionesBolivia2020#Bolivia
#BoliviaElections Electoral branch reports that voting tables just closed in Spain as the day comes to an end. However voting abroad continues in other countries. #EleccionesBolivia2020#Bolivia
#BoliviaElections I just got this image from Monteagudo, rural area on eastern part of Chuquisaca (my homeland!). Biosecurity measures are being respected. Very proud to see this! #EleccionesBolivia2020#Bolivia
#BoliviaElections Civil society observer group "Observa Bolivia" monitoring nationally reported that 96,44% of the electoral tables in their sample were installed and began working on time today. #EleccionesBolivia2020#Bolivia
#BoliviaElections Vote count takes place nationally & citizens are witnessing the process to ensure transparency. Civil society groups like us @RiosDePie are taking pictures of voting records to compare w/ official results #EleccionesBolivia2020#Bolivia
Since Morales decided to publicly question Trump on the US interest to uphold democracy, in a truly democratic spirit today I would like to bring the attention this is getting to the issue of Bolivian democracy: Morales has made it legal to be re-elected indefinitely.
As a Bolivian, I’d like to point out that while many -with due reason- are clapping at Morales’ statement in the UN, you MUST realize that the president you see there shamelessly using the Trump card to foster his international image is a violator if human rights AT HOME.
If Morales indeed cared so much about indigenous rights and dignity his government would not threaten and persecute indigenous leaders who oppose the extractivist policies his gov has taken which give green light for Chinese companies to explore our natural areas