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SANTIAGO.- Today, the Chilean Electoral Service (SERVEL) published the list of people who will be required to serve as monitors during municipal elections scheduled for October 26th.
For the most part, the representatives are the same individuals that have performed the duty during previous elections. Only a handful of changes were made in cases of death or modifications of constituency.
During an interview with Radio ADN, the director of SERVEL, Juan Ignacio García, explained that as of today, those who have been designated will have three days to present a reason why they are not able to perform their civic duty.
García explained that acceptable reasons to withdraw one's monitoring duty are "if one has moved and is now living more that 300 kilometers from the voting site, if one is sick or if one is performing a public duty that impedes them...