2023-08-21 03:34:44
The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador denounced this August 20 that the voting system abroad suffered cyberattacks. Diana Atamaint, president of the CNE, attributed to this cause the problems that Ecuadorians residing abroad have denounced in exercising their right to vote in the presidential and legislative elections, as well as in the two environmental consultations in natural areas of the country.
“The telematic voting platform suffered cyber attacks that affected the fluidity to access the vote,” Atamaint remarked. In addition, he explained that they come, according to preliminary reports, from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia and China.
However, the authority clarified that “the votes consigned (abroad) have not been violated”, although it did not refer to the complaints of Ecuadorian emigrants for not having been able to vote.
The CNE made several decisions after the cyber attacks, of which it did not provide further details, especially in relation to the broadcasting of the voting results.
The data can be followed in Ecuador through the CNE web portal, as well as in mobile phone applications and in the official social networks of the institution.
More than 13.4 million Ecuadorians were able to elect the new ruler of the country at the polls, as well as 137 members of the National Assembly (Parliament).
In parallel, Ecuadorians voted in a national consultation that seeks to prohibit oil activities in Block 43-ITT, one of the most important deposits in the country, located in the Yasuní National Park, a biosphere reserve in the heart of the country Amazon.
In addition, the voters of the Metropolitan District of Quito had to participate in a popular consultation against mining in the Chocó Andino, a natural space classified as a biosphere reserve since 2018 by Unesco, which is located in the northwest of Quito.
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