Constitución en Inglés

182 constituteproject.org Colombia 2021 Chapter I Suffrage and Elections V oting is both a right and a duty of citizens. The State shall make sure that it is exercised without any type of coercion and in a secret manner in individual booths installed in every polling station, the use of electronic and computerized means of voting notwithstanding. In elections of candidates, ballot cards that are numbered and printed on paper offering sufficient security guarantees may be used, and shall be distributed officially. The Election Commission shall also provide voters with ballot papers on which the political movements and parties with legal status and the candidates shall appear clearly identifiedand in equal conditions. A law may establish voting mechanisms that provide additional and better guarantees for the free exercise of this right of citizens. The voting process for the election of members of a public body, governor, mayor, or the first round of the presidential election must be repeated in a single additional round when blank votes constitute the majority of the total number of valid votes. In elections in which a single candidate is to be elected, the candidates on the first ballot may not run again, and in elections to public bodies the lists that have not attained the threshold [of votes] may not be submitted for new elections. ARTICLE 258 PARAGRAPH 1