The Junta Central says that some 3,750,502 Dominicans will be able to vote on 16 May. According to the president of the JCE, Dr. César Estrella Sahdalá, more than 200,000 names were deleted from the voting list used in the last election for various reasons. Dr. Estrella was speaking during a breakfast organized by Jaycee’s 72 at the Gran Hotel Lina.
The total of the voters comes after the JCE revised the official list. Some 153,400 were excluded from the previous version, and some 51,000 people were declared ineligible to vote for unresolved irregularities in the voting cards. He explained that he reached an agreement with the parties to leave out those with late birth registrations that had not been properly explained and the final list is now ready to go to print.
Dr. Estrella said that the cleaning up of the voting list was the most complicated task they had to accomplish. He said they removed from the list all the military personnel that appeared as civilians, civilians that appeared as military personnel, living that appeared as dead, dead that appeared as living, people with two cédulas, as well as those with birth certificates that had not been cleared by the court.
Dr. César Estrella Sahdalá, president of the JCE, said that the Computer Center of the JCE is now processing the list that will be distributed on security paper to all the voting stations.
The number of voters is three times that of 30 years ago, in the election in 1966 when 1,334,020 citizens were able to vote. In this election, Dominicans able to vote total almost half the population, estimated at 7.8 million people.
There will be 10,376 voting stations for this election. The JCE published the list of the voting stations in the Listín Diario of Wednesday, 17 April.