DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

One of the present five members of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Carmen Imbert Brugal said on 5 October 2020 at the Senate that she and other members of the plenary were surprised when the president of JCE announced the suspending of the municipal election on 16 February 2020. Imbert Brugal was interviewed by the Senate committee that is assessing candidates for the five full members and the five alternates at the JCE. Imbert Brugal seeks to continue at the JCE.

“The plenary was not aware of the problems with difficulties in the automated voting system,” she said. The election was canceled at 11am on the municipal election day (16 February 2020) after the system failed to upload opposition parties’ ballots. Imbert Brugal said that the observer mission of the Organization of American States and the technicians of the JCE knew about the problems on the day before. Imbert Brugal...