The Secretary General of the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, José Tomás Pérez said yesterday that the Junta Central Electoral has to make it easier for citizens to get their identification/voting cards or cedulas. "It has to make adjustments in the method and processing of the cedula so the people have to suffer through less bottlenecks. I passed by the JCE and that looked like a political meeting, with all the people that were seeking their cedula," he said. The JCE yesterday impeded that TeleMicro, Channel 5, televise the chaos at the JCE by disconnecting a live transmission. Monsignor José Arnáiz of the Catholic Church recently suggested that the JCE allot the delivery of the cedulas in different locales by alphabetical order, so that depending on the letter citizens would know where to get their cedula and not have to endure the chaos and long lines at the JCE headquarters. Pérez of the PLD said that if the electoral court does not assume new technical and managerial practices, the problems for handing in the cedula will only get worse. "Nothing will be gained not even with extending the delivery date if the methods and processing of the cedulas pending for delivery are not varied," he said. The JCE still has to hand in 700,000 cedulas.
