As they had forewarned the Junta Central Electoral, the last two members of the National District Electoral Junta that had participated in the successful organization of the 1996 presidential election and the 1998 congressional and municipal election, resigned yesterday. The two, Antoliano Peralta Romero and Mu-Kien Sang Ben resigned when the JCE restructured the board, removing all other members of the team that had worked for the successful celebration of the 1996 and 1998 elections. Peralta and Sang had urged the JCE to leave the experienced members, and only appoint members to fill posts left vacant by those who had previously resigned. The board positions are honorary, and Peralta and Sang Ben felt that by appointing an all new board, the responsibility placed upon them, without the experienced team as backup, was too great, and their professional reputations could be at stake. The Junta del Distrito organizes elections in Santo Domingo, where 33% of voters live, overseeing 3,500 voting tables.
