The National Electoral Chamber approved on Thursday the models of the Unique Paper (BUP) ballot that will be used in the national elections of October 26. And spread the images of how the BUP.Asi would be made. The use of the BUP was arranged in the reform of the National Electoral Code approved by the Congress. The authorities issued the ballot models on Thursday, with one or two categories. Now, the National Electoral Board of each district must prepare the BUP with the real offer, once the lists of the candidacies for national senators and national deputies of each political group are officialized. The BUP will have the entire national electoral offer of the district in a single ballot that will be delivered to each voter by the table authority. As reported, the design of the base model is limited to including and distributing all the information and elements required by the National Electoral Code.I A category ballot, up to twenty (20) groups; A category ballot, more than twenty (20) groups; Two categories ballot, up to ten (10) groups; Two categories ballot, up to twenty (20) groups; and two categories ballot, more than twenty (20) groups. According to the electoral justice, in the October elections the national senators category will be located in the front horizontal row and national deputies in the second horizontal row. It was also specified that the order of the groups on the unique district ballot must be determined by raffle. In the case of the October elections, the raffle will be held without distinctions between the groups that would have formalized lists in one or both categories. The Congress approved the use of the BUP on October 1 and the Government promulgated it two weeks later. The Executive did it through Decree 915/2024, published in the latest edition of the Official Gazette with the signature of Javier Milei and his chief of Cabinet, Guillermo Francos.
Electoral justice defined what the unique paper ticket for national elections will be like
