Mexico judicial elections today, but voters face long and complex ballot cards

The plan is simple. On Sunday, Mexicans will vote for the election of judges throughout the country, in Vast repair This reaches from the Supreme Court to each level of the judicial system.

Implementation, however, can baffle the mind.

Voters are expected to choose approximately 2,700 judicial jobs out of 7,800 candidates throughout the federal and state elections, a huge task that can be seen complicated in a variety of colored symbols, candidate groups and polling types that will be distributed.

In one of the states, there are 155 candidates on one page, reflecting the aspirations of the ruling Mourina party in Mexico to give the democratic character to the system. In another case, there is no choice at all – what critics call a sign of deep repair defects.

The National Elections Agency is characterized by simulating polling on its website, where citizens can vote and click on the name of each candidate to get to know this person.

But if the voter takes five minutes to study each candidate, this will reach more than five hours for this polling alone.

Voters will also choose 464 courts and 386 positions of the provincial court throughout Mexico. But this polls vary according to the circle and the region.

Everyone in the country will not see the same specializations or voting for the same number of judges.

In some densely populated areas, there are many situations in which the national election authorities used a lottery to divide the candidates who appear on the cards.

“We will elect a small number of judges who will hear our issues,” said Javier Martin Reyes, a law professor at Mexico National University of Mexico.

State cards vary widely

All Mexican voters can vote for federal candidates, but in 19 states, voters will have to choose local judges, as well as in some cases, the number of vote votes that voters will have to succeed. (The remaining judicial attitudes will be elected in 2027.)

In the state of Chihua, voters will have to election 305 local judges from about 900 candidates, and the largest polling officials in any state. Voters in the Zehahua region, Morelos, must go through 13 cordon – six federal and seven local – to reach all candidates.

In this vote for a low -level court, voters must choose five women and five men from 155 names.

At the other end of the spectrum, Durango is located, where there are 49 jobs to seize the local court system on Sunday and 49 candidates.

All the three branches of the state government approved the same candidates – as they attracted criticism from the local population and legal experts who say this will be a simulation of the elections, not a real process.

These critics argue that the court reform can give the ruling party more power and open the door to an inadvertent Easily affected Candidates.

Supporters of comprehensive reform, including the President of Mexico, have underestimated these risks, saying that the vote will help clarify corruption and favoritism by giving citizens the opportunity to choose their judges, unlike the system based on the previous appointment.

But in Durango, at least, each candidate needs only one vote to win. Nevertheless, the number of votes is still important, because it will determine the limits of the period and who will be the main judge in some courts, according to state officials.

On this page of Durango, eight women compete in eight positions, and seven men reach seven positions.

This court has the events in Durango, the polling has one candidate for one position.

In the states of Coahuila and Quintana Roo, the polling appears completely different.

Instead of choosing individual candidates, voters in those states will choose one of three columns, each of whom represents a group of candidates who were placed by the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the state.

Coordination is much simpler than the sprawling polling cards that voters will receive in other states, but critics have argued that it gives voters less options and puts more power in the hands of government branches.