EthanA said:
This waiting is killing me I wish they would start giving the percent now...Like they do here in the United States .....
In the US each television network does exit polling. They select a certain number of voters at random as they are exiting the polls and make statistical inferences from those polls. It is quite reliable but hardly official.
The Dominican Republic's laws prohibit that any entity other than the JCE emit information about results or politics during voting day. Most parties already know who won by means of their internal reading of voting acts but are not allowed to make any of that information public.