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Mexico City Launches Early Virtual Voting for 2025 Participatory Budget

The IECM activated the SEI platform through August 14 to let more than 19,000 registrants cast votes on community projects online.

Overview

  • Electronic voting runs from August 4 to 14 daily between 09:00 and 17:00 ahead of the in-person vote on August 17.
  • A total of 19,327 people registered for early voting, encompassing capital residents, expatriates, those in preventive detention and individuals in postración.
  • Registered participants will choose one project among 13,357 citizen-submitted proposals spanning 1,781 territorial units to allocate over 2 billion pesos.
  • Voting options include the online SEI platform, institute-provided offline tablets and printed ballots to ensure access for homebound citizens, caregivers and detainees.
  • System integrity is maintained through cryptographic key storage, zero-participation baseline checks, accredited observers and secure transport of nominal voter lists by the Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana.