Last year, after an opportunity to witness Colombia’s congressional elections first hand, I noted that there was some clear confusion on the part of both voters and poll workers/vote counters regarding the ballot’s format. See, for example, Ballot Design (and Voter Knowledge) Matters.
One of the problems was confusion over the way that voters should vote for candidate preferences for parties with open lists.
For the 2024 local elections (set for October of this years) a redesigned (really, reorganized) ballot will be used (click for a larger image):
While this may not solve all of the issues noted in the above-linked post, it should be far more intuitive in terms of the open list issue.
More info: here.
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March 24th, 2024 at 1:24 pm
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