The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is starting 2025 with a key item on its agenda: the renewal of the national identity and voter ID cards. This follows the successful management of the February and May elections in 2024 and start of the second term of most of the JCE board members. The JCE in the Dominican Republic is responsible for organizing municipal and presidential elections and for the civil registry.
Resolution 49/2024 had set the date for the renovation process for 17 August 2024, but the process was delayed for 2025. Yet the JCE has not confirmed a timeline for the ID process. The intention is to use the process to also purge IDs determined to have been irregularly issued. Janet Camilo, delegate for the PRD political party at the JCE, has mentioned almost 3 million irregular IDs have been flagged.
The electoral authority has not...
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