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Described by the government as a bold step to hold judges more accountable and improve the judicial system, Bolivians will elect judges by popular vote - the first vote of its kind in South America.

The country's prisoners are hoping that it will make the country's notoriously slow justice system run more efficiently.

But critics of the plan argue that the judicial ballot has been stacked with judges favored by President Evo Morales, which could undermine judicial independence.

Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from the capital, La Paz.

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