00:00 We go live to Guatemala.
00:03 Electoral authorities are about to provide a press conference.
00:06 We have over 128,000 citizens in charge of doing the important task of voting.
00:27 I would like to greet and congratulate the hundreds of Guatemalan people who are volunteering
00:34 here doing this important task.
00:46 These citizens are in charge of both counting and also the security of these votes.
00:58 I would also like to thank the attendance of all political organizations who were present
01:03 here during this important election.
01:14 I also would like to highlight the work of the CNE, who have made possible an election
01:24 day peacefully and normally.
01:33 We witnessed today thousands of people voting with their families, which confirms the guaranteed
01:42 security of this day.
01:53 Before concluding this conference, I would also like to thank all the collaborators of
02:04 the National Court for their help and assistance during this day.
02:10 Thank you very much.
02:17 (Applause.)
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02:43 We are here pending on any updates regarding the electoral day.
03:07 We are also witnessing the second round of the electoral elections.
03:17 We will begin the informational program regarding the elections.
03:31 I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who are working, especially
03:40 the informatics there in the electoral center, who have played an important role to be able
03:49 to continue to do this process of vote counting.
03:59 We made possible as well the transmissions of the results of the elections.
04:13 Through this informatic program, we have made possible the access for the citizens to vote
04:20 and also see the results of the elections through a digital platform.
04:35 This way, we will initiate the technical procedure to get information regarding the electoral
04:44 day.
04:58 We are here witnessing the press conference regarding the electoral day.
05:09 We can see there on the screen how the vote counting is currently at zero, and this number
05:17 will be increasing as the vote counting progresses.
05:31 We also have a double authentication process as a security measure.
05:44 Having this way access to this informatic program, we go here to initiate the voting
05:59 process.
06:01 We can see here that the code that represents that the vote counting is at zero.
06:13 You can see here, and it's visible in this formula.
06:25 Also important to mention that the amount of documents that will be processing here
06:33 in this electoral day will increase to over 24,000.
06:48 We can proceed to verify that the vote counting is currently at zero.
07:03 In this moment, we just checked that the database of the voting count is at zero, so we will
07:10 proceed to start the program and give initiation to the voting process.
07:25 The volunteers who are in charge of doing this vote counting will use this platform,
07:33 and we use the exact same process to count all the votes.
07:49 We're watching a press conference by the Guatemalan electoral authorities, magistrates of the
07:53 nation's supreme electoral tribunal, and all those involved in the development of the
07:58 election day.
07:59 It is added that the election ran smoothly, without incidents.
08:02 The authorities then show the functioning of the vote counting process in digital platforms,
08:08 and after they showed it was zero for both candidates, the vote counting was set to begin.
08:13 We'll have more on these and other topics in upcoming news briefs.
08:16 Stay tuned with Telesur.
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