Elections on February 7, 2021 will no longer be held in one of New York’s four electoral zones due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the Queens area, where La Guardia Community College had previously been confirmed as a campus. This was reported by the Consulate General of Ecuador in New York and said that the facilities may not be used due to the restrictions generated by the virus.
However, he indicated that they will make “all the necessary efforts to define a new precinct” for that electoral zone and thus guarantee the right to vote of Ecuadorians.
In New York there are three other venues:
- NY/New York -Bronx: Mott Haven Educational Campus
- NY/Hudson Valley – Peekskill: Senior Center
- NY/Long Island – Patchogue: Knights of Columbus Hall
This announcement is made in the midst of a crisis faced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) due to mobility problems that some 12,000 Ecuadorian voters residing abroad of the 410,239 registered abroad could have.
There are inconsistencies in Peru where there are 927 registered voters; in Nicaragua, 93; in Venezuela, 10,993 and in Panama with 599 voters.
And in the latter country, the regime did not authorize the elections to be held due to the pandemic. Also due to mobility restrictions. (I)
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