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

Registraduria Nacional del Estado Civil (RNEC) 4. Name of the Document viz Electoral Photo
(National Civil Registry) Identity Card
Identificacion Personal Cedula De Ciudadania
2. Website Address
www.registraduria.gov.co 5. Voter turnout in last National Elections: Total,
www.cne.gov.co Percentage
53,36 % Oct 2018
3. Nature of EMB
Independent 6. Voting Method
Manual marking of Ballots; Mock electronic voting
4. Terms of office tested
The National Registrar of Civil Status has a period
of 4 years. 7. Audit Trail
Not implemented
The 9 Magistrates of the National Electoral
Council have a term of 4 years. 8. Voting Process
At the polling station, a voter has to present
The President of the NEC is elected for a period of
one year by the 9 magistrates. her/his relevant identification documents. On
confirmation, the voter gets an electoral/voting
At the end of the period, a new election is made. card that has a list of political parties standing
in the elections. The voter then goes towards
5. EMB Members selected by a cubicle to cast her/his ballot in secret. The
The National Civil Registrar is chosen by the voter is required to identify the party of her/his
Presidents of the Constitutional Court, the choice, fold the card and put it into a ballot box.
Supreme Court of Justice and the Council of In 2007, a large-scale pilot on electronic voting
State, through a merit competition.
was conducted in Colombia wherein citizens
The nine (9) magistrates of the National Electoral pretended to be voting in a real election.
Council are elected by the full Congress of the It is planned to carry out an automated mixed
Republic.
vote pilot test in the Consejos de Juventud (Youth
6. Chairperson’s Appointing Authority Council) elections, to be held on November 8,
EMB 2020.
7. Names of Elections conducted by EMB (C) ELECTION CALENDAR
Colombian Presidential Election
1. Last Election Dates
8. Titles of Electoral Legislation(s)
Elecciones de Autoridades Locales, 27 de octubre
(B) ELECTORAL PROCESS de 2019.
2. Future Election Date
1. Total Population as on Elecciones Consejos de Juventud, 8 de noviembre
50.8 Million (Feb. 2020)
de 2020.
2. Registered Electors as on
36.6 Million, 17.7million men and 18.8 Million 3. Compulsory Voting
women No

3. Method of voter registration
The Censo Electoral (electoral register) is updated
with the automatic inclusion of the cedulas
(identification document) issued for the first time,
upon reaching the age of 18.

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