This morning at around 11 AM, I headed to a private school to vote in the City elections. It was the first time I voted electronically (the first time they introduced this, I was out of the country and didn't vote).
I watched an instructional video yesterday and I was prepared for it. However, there is no dark room/box. They just put a monitor/voting station on a desk, facing against the commission. You slide in the voting card, touch the candidate of your choice, click on print and the voting card comes out with the name and last name of your chosen candidate. You are asked to check that the printed voting card correctly states the name of the chosen candidate. This step is done before the commission and they could take a peak of the name, if they wanted to and if you are not careful. I was careful to do this keeping the voting station between myself and the commision, but I didn't feel that privacy was preserved enough. Also, the voting machine was basically a all-in-one monitor, standing on a school desk, so I had to bend to vote and stay bent to check the print out, to be covered by the voting machine while I did it.
Once I checked the printed voting card, I had to fold it and then the president of the commission took off the upper rim, matched it with the other half that she had kept before giving me my card, and then I had to slid the folded voting card in the cardboard box.
It seemed unnecessary since I was right before them and they saw me sliding the blank voting card in the machine, touching the screen, taking the printed card out, checking it, folding it...
Also, the online instructions said I had to tear the upper rim myself and hand it over to the commission, whereas the president of the commission asked me to hand my card to her and tore it herself. She tend handed back the voting card for me to slip it in the cardboad box.
Boleta Única Electrónica | Buenos Aires Ciudad - Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Doblá la boleta hasta el límite del troquel para que nadie vea qué elegiste. Adelante del presidente de mesa cortá el troquel y dáselo antes de introducir tu boleta en la urna. Firmá el padrón electoral, recibí tu constancia de votación y listo.
