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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB

Argentina, Brazil, Spain and the United States
were allowed to participate in biometric voter
registration and cast their votes through polling
stations administered by the consulates. However,
due to the technical complexity of implementing
biometric registration abroad, the RET stipulated
that Bolivians living abroad would make up only
six percent of the registered voters from the
national electoral registry. Furthermore, no single
country could account for more than 50 percent
of the overseas registered voters.
An Aymara woman puts her fingerprint on a paper
5. Compulsory Voting before voting at a school in Achacachi town in La
Voting is compulsory. Paz

Aymara Indians participate in the general elections in the town of Patamanta, Bolivia.

People wait to vote in Bolivia’s general elections at a school in Achacachi town in La Paz

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