Five people were intervened by the National Police of Peru (PNP) in the province of Chincha, Ica region, after alleged irregularities were detected in three voting cards that had marks. Those involved, three board members and two workers from the Decentralized Office of Electoral Processes (ODPE) from Chincha, were transferred to the Criminalistics Division for the corresponding investigations.
The incident was recorded at the Higher Technological Institute of New Townpremises enabled for the second round of the General Elections 2026. According to information provided by the ODPE Chincha, the identification cards observed should have been annulled and replaced by order of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE)a situation that presumably would not have materialized.
After the irregularity was detected, the National Police was immediately notified to begin the proceedings. The five intervened were taken in patrol cars to the specialized police unit, where information will be collected to clarify the circumstances in which the cards remained within the electoral material.
It will be the Public Ministry the person in charge of determining the legal situation of those intervened once the investigations are concluded and possible administrative or criminal responsibilities are established.
Chincha’s case was not the only incident reported during election day. in the region Freedomthe authorities intervened on a man who was carrying a firearm outside a voting center. In addition, An 18-year-old young man was detained after being accused of making subversive graffiti on a voting card. and later breaking it in a polling station in the Los Cedros urbanization.
In Lambayeque, eleven cards corresponding to table No. 035153, installed at the Santo Domingo Savio school in the district of Pueblo Nuevo, province of Ferreñafe, They were immobilized and sealed after detecting lines made with a pencil. The information was confirmed by the commissioner of the Ombudsman’s Office, Carlos Rodas.
In Lima, investigations related to alleged alterations in voting cards were also reported. In the district of Anconrelatives of Juan Carlos Espinoza Zapata, Pamela Alicia Cruz Lorenzo and Luis Milatania Carhuapoma reported that the three remain under investigation for the alleged manipulation of 18 identification cards with scratches detected at the Inca College, where they served as board members.
According to the information released by those close to them, those investigated will remain detained for 48 hours while fiscal and police proceedings continue.
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A similar case is recorded in The Olive Treeswhere Tomás Eduardo Alegre Díaz, Joseph Hans Aguilar Peñaloza and Martín Antonio Alarcón de la Cruzmembers of a voting table installed at the Enrique Milla Ochoa school, face a 24-hour preliminary detention. The fiscal hypothesis maintains that the identification cards under his responsibility also had alterations and scratches.
Likewise, the investigation reaches Mirtha Julia Bardales, president of the voting table No. 048135 of the Virgen María del Rosario educational institution, in Saint Martin de Porres. According to preliminary investigations, he is accused of allegedly manipulating 18 voting papers.
