There is a growing public demand for the establishment in Argentina of an electronic voting system to end the problem of "Sheet List" is very long list of names of candidates for public office, of which the voter does not know about anyone.
except I'm on this system. Elector can not imagine how it should vote and how votes should be counted at the end. While the introduction of this system solves the problem of issuing a type of ballot for each party and all that entails as vices ballot theft, forgery, and a huge number of prosecutors to monitor the balloting, in which small parties who lack sufficient financial resources or people to monitor the voting are vulnerable to major parties have no qualms about falsifying records and put things in their own benefit.
When deputies to be elected, which is the problematic part of the current system, where for example the province of Buenos Aires must choose 35 deputies on each shift electoral and political party must submit its own ballot with a list of 35 people The Public asked to vote for a system that includes studs, which means that each voter's vote should be counted in two ways: one, the first for the party, which should be counted in the delivery ratio, the blemish a voter makes a candidate the list would be a second vote, but should only subtract negative strikeout candidate, but not the rest and this should sort the party list in reverse, as negative votes or disqualification of each candidate and, behold, the crux of the problem such as counting the votes in an electoral system so complex. This system will cause many scratches, invites unscrupulous politicians to cheat, theft of ballots would be replaced by the faults. What would happen to the voters who challenged the whole list except for a candidate. The result would be less representative would have a still camera than we have. This electronic voting system for deputies does not seem feasible, it seems to work very well in the imagination of people, but not in practice. In fact, electronic voting applies any European country. The United States has applied a mechanical voting system, with machines built in the 50's and they were finally removed after the 2000 electoral problem.
Electronic voting is gaining ground here in poor democracies such as Venezuela and Brazil. In Venezuela the system has allowed the political system to spy on voters who vote for or against the regime. This system has identified easily manipulated voter vote, which is a great danger in societies ruled by authoritarian governments and unscrupulous as ours or Venezuela. Hugo Chávez has used against people who voted against him, harassed voters with armies of tax inspectors in their jobs, business, or legal proceedings, or imposing decrees that have their lives miserable. In Brazil, paradoxically, the system works best among illiterate Indian communities of the forest in the upper-class districts of Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo. Shameless politicians have had a great tool to manipulate the masses illiterate.
I guess a simple electoral system is to divide each province into electoral districts of equal population (nominally) and each elect a deputy by a simple majority of votes. For example the province of Buenos Aires can be divided into 35 districts with two representatives each, renewable halves alternately as required by the Constitution, or voters divided into 70 districts with a deputy and carrying each a turn renew districts pairs and the other the odd shift.
single-member district system is not strange. Britain applies for the election of deputies since 1832, France applies to its entire national parliaments, regional and local; Germany for half of its national members and almost all the German states also apply to members of their legislatures, in Canada and the The U.S. is the only system that is always applied to any kind of legislative office. In Argentina, the province of San Juan, applies for the election of members of the House. This system allows each member to identify with their constituents and those with him.
In Argentina this system was applied to the early twentieth century but was abolished shortly after the deputies argue that they felt loss as to the representation of its title, an excuse is not credible, because the electoral system applied at the time was not favorable to the government of then removed it for their own convenience. The single-member district system, however it has a drawback, since the Constitution states: "Whereas the provinces as electoral districts in one state ..." This could be interpreted as the provinces can not be divided into electoral districts and their deputies should be chosen in a balloon, but does not seem to be an absolute rule, because the Supreme Court should review this item and determine what the Constitution means and establish jurisprudence regard. That has never happened because the system has governed in a short period in Argentina's history.
Another disadvantage may be a point of contention is that it is essentially two-party system and results in a performance that does not correspond with the number of votes for each party. Nothing prevents three or more parties or candidates, as this system allows for independent candidates, but the result is that the party that won first place it with a majority of seats which is proportionally much greater than the result of vote . The second game would get a considerable number of members but in smaller proportion to the number of votes, and third parties would practically swoon, however, those presented as independent could be elected by the voters of a single district with big chances of being elected.
proportional representation of political forces in the chamber is a myth, not true that it is necessary to obtain an accurate representation of members on the number of votes. This concern of the mathematical accuracy exists in no mentioning above: what is sought is a true representation of voters and elected the system allows single-member and list no.
The representation of the provinces in House and the required regularity of the Census
One thing not discussed is the apportionment of seats that each province should have in the House of Representatives. The Constitution mandates conduct censuses every ten years, and apportion the number of deputies to elect ten years after completion of each census. That constitutional mandate is not met. The current representation is based on the 1980 census also has a set of clauses of dubious constitutionality that states for example, that no province can choose a census after a number of members less than it had in the previous assessment, that each province must have at least five members (clause which led to a distortion aberration in the representation must have each member on a province to another). The Constitution established dual representation: a territorial (Senate) and other demographic (Deputies). The current representation based on the 1983 law has ignored those constitutional provisions establishing territorial representation deputies, should not be. A deputy for Buenos Aires represents more than 200,000 inhabitants, a national deputy for Tierra del Fuego only 21,000 inhabitants. This means that the Chamber of Deputies represents anything but the population of each province. 
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