You vote and you eat it! Alleged fraud with 'electoral sticker' at Cancún polling station

During voting this Sunday, June 1, in the historic election to appoint judges, magistrates, and ministers of the Federal Judicial Branch, La Verdad Noticias revealed a clever mechanism of voter coercion at polling station 149 in Cancún's superblock 95.

According to a woman who claimed to be involved in voter recruitment, certain individuals are being given an “ electoral wafer ”: an edible sheet measuring approximately 15 by 7 centimeters containing the exact list of numbers corresponding to the candidates to be marked on the ballots.

According to the story, those who agree to participate are promised a food package or up to 500 pesos. Once inside the booth, they must check the sticker to mark the ballots as indicated, take a photograph of them—along with their voter ID—and send the images to a leader. They must then eat the sticker to avoid leaving physical evidence.

"There are district leaders and deputy leaders who seek out their recruits. They give them instructions, the badge, and then ask for their photo. Then they eat it up," the woman said.

The image of the sticker, shown in this article, matches the official lists of candidates by number and position, differentiated by color. The sheet contains the numerical codes for Supreme Court justices, members of the Electoral Tribunal, circuit magistrates, and district judges.

In the case of local judicial offices in Quintana Roo , the ballots are marked by blocks of proposals: gray represents the Executive Branch, brown the Legislative Branch, and pink the Judicial Branch. According to the woman, the instruction in these cases was to vote for the gray block.

Ministers of the SCJN

Women

03 Lenia Batres Guadarrama

08 Yasmín Esquivel Mossa

16 Sara Herrerías Guerra

22 Loretta Ortiz Ahlf

26 María Estela Ríos González

Men

34 Hugo Aguilar Ortiz

41 Irving Espinoza Betanzo

43 Giovanni Azael Figueroa Mejía

48 Aristides Rodrigo Guerrero García

Judicial Disciplinary Tribunal

02 Eva Verónica by Gyves Zárate

04 Indira Isabel García Pérez

09 Celia Maya García

23 Bernardo Bátiz Vázquez

31 Rufino León Tovar

Magistrates of the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the PJF

06 Claudia Valle Aguilasocho

Gilberto de Guzmán Bátiz García

Regional Chambers of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch

02 Irina Graciela Cervantes Bravo

03 Carolina Chávez Rangel

19 Alfonso Roiz Elizondo

Circuit Magistrates

03 Lina Victoria Bolio Steps

04 Maria del Rosario Cervantes Garcia

06 Berenice Penelope Polanco Cordova

07 Judith Rodríguez Villanueva

21 Jorge Armando Hernández González

26 José Luis Orduña Aguilera

27 Aaron Alberto Pereira Lizama

33 Lenin Salvador Centeno Ávila

District Judges

07 Landy Rosalía Pamplona Pérez

08 María José Pech Sáenz

10 Gloria Luz Reyes Rojo

13 Eugenia Maritza Valencia Hernández

14 Farfán Javier Aguirre

17 Santiago Ciro Carrera

18 Jesymar Castillo Arangute

35 Darío Alejandro Villa Arnáiz