Spokesmen for both the PLD and the PRSC said they do not agree with the Junta Central Electoral decision. In Resolution 03-00, the JCE resolved that the 35,000 voters whose photo on the JCE photographic voters list and the photo on their voting cards do not match to cast votes that supposedly will be counted in a second phase, when each case is individually analyzed. Traditionally, this second phase never happens. The PLD and PRSC want the JCE to come up with a better solution. Juan Esteban Olivero Feliz of the PRSC said that the voters cannot be responsible for the technical problems of the JCE. The JCE estimates that 35,000 persons are affected by this problem, as the March voters’ card verification exercise showed. Given how close the polls show Danilo Medina (PLD) and Joaquín Balaguer (PRSC) to be, the 35,000 voters whose vote may never be counted could make the difference. Likewise, if in a second round voters of the PRSC and the PLD rally together, they could also make a difference in who would be the next president of the Dominican Republic. The PRD did not dispute the measure.
