More than 300,000 Cuban youths aged 16 will cast their vote for the first time in the upcoming April 25 elections of delegates to the Cuban Municipal Assemblies.
During a press conference, National Electoral Commission President Ana Maria Machado and Vice President Ruben Perez Rodriguez announced that the electoral rolls in each constituency will be verified January 28 through February 14 prior to the elections. Where needed, the second round of elections will take place May 2.
Machado and Perez announced that on January 28, the Municipal Electoral Registration Offices would hand to the electoral commissions of each constituency the electoral rolls to speed up verifying the data, and that an estimated 300,000 youths will have the right to cast their vote for the first time since, unlike many countries, Cubans have the automatic right to vote once they’ve reached adulthood.
The number of constituencies across the country this election has risen to 15,093 —15, 057 of which are ordinary and 36 special.
Members of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution will be visiting people’s houses to verify any changes in the number of voters. Later on, the electoral commissions will be analyzing the collected data with authorities from the Identity Card Registration Office.
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