📋 Tender Overview
Unanimously the Chamber of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies approved and dispatched at the third step to the Senate the bill initiated in a parliamentary motion which allows voting with expired identity cards and passports.The initiative provides that in elections or plebiscites held between the date of publication of this law and the end of the constituent process for the sole purpose of identifying the national elector identity cards or passports that have expired will be accepted. October 1 2019. The bill whose general and particular approval added 140 and 137 votes in favor respectively states that the same rule will apply to foreign voters with respect to the identity card for foreigners.During its processing in the Chamber the text was subject to a modification that will require a third legislative process since initially the motion established as a ceiling on December 31 2021 a phrase that was changed by the indicated term of the constituent process .In its foundations the rule specifies that the social demonstrations that took place in Chile as of October 18 and the Covid-19 pandemic have made it impossible for many citizens especially the elderly to carry out the renewal process of their identity card in a timely manner. identity or passport.The foregoing it is added constitutes an impediment for them to exercise their right to vote in the series of elections that will be held this year and next.In this regard it is recalled that the Organic Constitutional Law on Popular Voting and Scrutiny establishes that The voter shall deliver to the President his national identity card or passport. The foreign voter his identity card for foreigners. No other document or certificate can replace the previous ones . The documents indicated must be current . Those that have expired within the twelve months prior to the election or plebiscite will also be accepted for the sole purpose of identifying the voter. By virtue of the foregoing it is specified in the project that the additional period of twelve months for the presentation of the expired identity card or passport is clearly insufficient given the events that have affected our country.
