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Used To Elect President
Come next February Costa Ricans will be
going to the polls to elect their president
to run the country for the following four
years. The Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones
(TSE) is the agency that is charge of the
election preparations, expecting 2.835.357
people to cast their vote on the first
Sunday of February 2009.
The elections in Costa Rica are pretty
standard stuff.
However, for the 2010 elections, the TSE has
come up with an innovation, the use of
crayons for voters to mark the ballots to
elect a president, legislators and regidores.
The idea of the TSE is for voters not to use
the same pencils used by the people running
the voting stations, that are responsible
for the counting of the votes.
The use of a colour crayon eliminates any
possible fraud, according to TSE officials,
who will spend some ˘300 colones for each of
the 60.000 crayons that will be used in the
voting.
An important decision facing the magistrates
of the TSE is what colour to be used, now
that the type of paper and printer has been
settled - the Imprenta Nacional (National
Printer) will be used in this election, a
move from contracting out the work in the
past elections.
Another change of the February 7, 2010, vote
will be the use of email and text messaging
over a cellular phone to remind Costa Ricans
to get out and vote.
The TSE says it has made a deal with the
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) to send out, on four different
occasions, a text message to all its 1.9
million cellular telephone customers.
The first messages will be in July and
September this year to remind to register to
vote. The other messages will go out in
January and February 2010 to remind voters
to vote and use the "120" service to check
the location of their registered voting
station.
As to emails, only clients having an email
account with racsa.co.cr and
costarricense.cr will be bothered with pesky
elections messages.
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