The Alcantarilla City Council has launched an initiative for residents to choose the candidates for queens of the local festivities through the Alcantarilla Suma application. This digital tool allows residents to vote easily from their phones, seeking to increase citizen participation in the selection of the municipality's festive representatives.
A municipal app for popular voting on candidates 📱
The Alcantarilla Suma application, developed by the city council, integrates a voting module that allows registered users to select their favorite candidates directly. The system validates the voter's identity through a digitized municipal census, avoiding duplicates. The platform is designed to be accessible, with an interface that guides the user in a few steps: choose a candidate, confirm the vote, and receive a digital receipt. Results are updated in real time, although the City Council has not detailed the cryptographic security protocols used.
Voting for the queen from the couch: democracy without pants 🛋️
Now the residents of Alcantarilla can decide who will be the queen of the festivities without having to get up from the couch or put down the TV remote. The app allows voting in pajamas, with one hand while the other holds the coffee. Of course, be careful not to accidentally vote for your cousin after a couple of beers, because then the official candidate finds out and stops greeting you in the procession. At least, there's no longer an excuse not to participate: not the rain, not laziness, nor having to run into the neighbor from the fifth floor.