Colombia sees over 1,000 complaints of electoral tampering

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia sees over 1,000 complaints of electoral tampering
Monday, 20 June 2011 17:59
Jim Glade

More than 1,000 complaints of voter tampering were announced before the Electoral Monitoring Committee and the Ministry of Interior and Justice.

Colombia's National Electoral Registry announced 1,000 complaints from voters being physically transported to register in other municipalities in efforts to tip the electoral balance, a process known as "transhumance."

Alejandra Barrios, the director of the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), an electoral watchdog in Colombia, told reporters that "the Electoral Council will enter to investigate each one of these complaints in front of the possibility that there was infringement of the law by passing the people from municipality to municipality or from one department to another."

The international director for the MOE told Colombia Reports the observers organization "believes that this poses a challenge to the National Electoral Council. They must investigate all incidents of electoral transhumance and direct all its power and bureaucratic might to counter and prevent these acts of electoral tampering."

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/17099-colombia-sees-over-1000-complaints-of-electoral-tampering.html

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"transhumance ????????????"