How to check in the Electoral Court where to vote in the mandatory BPS elections, step by step

They are approaching BPS elections to be held on Sunday November 22and each person authorized to vote can now access the registry search engine to find out where to vote in these elections. In this instance, the three representatives who will make up the board of directors of the state agency are defined by the orders of active workers, retirees and pensioners, and contributing companies.

He plan circuital prepared by the Electoral Court offers the details of the voting place of each of the almost 2.2 million voters summoned to the polls to vote on a mandatory basis, including some 63,600 foreigners who, despite not having a credential, will be able to bring their identity card to vote.

To open the registry search of the elections of Social Security Bank (BPS), you must enter the Electoral Court website.

To search by credential:

1. Enter credential series
2. Enter the credential number
3. Click on the reCAPTCHA verification (“I am not a robot”)
4. Click on “Consult”

To search by ID:

1. Enter the ID number without periods or hyphen
2. Click on the reCAPTCHA verification (“I am not a robot”)
3. Click on “Consult”

To search by names:

1. Enter the name
2. Enter last name
3. Enter date of birth
4. Click on the reCAPTCHA verification (“I am not a robot”)
5. Click on “Consult”

He voting is mandatory for all people who appear on the registry.

The current regulations establish that they are exonerated of the obligation to vote for people over 75 years of age and those who have benefits for inabilityregardless of your age.

However, these exceptions do not benefit the representatives or representatives designated to represent the companies in the election.

For the rest of the qualified that they are not going to vote, Electoral Court will process justifications only under the following causes:

• Illness, disability or proven physical impossibility.
• Reasons of force majeure.
• Being outside the country on the day of the election.
• Being domiciled in a department other than the one where voting is required, a reason that is not valid for business leaders.

Photo: Estefanía Leal/El País Archive.

Those who do not attend vote and do not justify their absence, they must pay financial fines. In the case of individuals, the fine amounts to one readjustable unit (UR), equivalent to $1,923 Uruguayan pesos to date.

For contributing companies, the penalties vary between 6, 12 and 20 Adjustable Units depending on the number of dependent workers, applying if the firm did not appoint an agent or if he or she did not appear at the meeting. electoral act.