The Junta Central Electoral president, Manuel Ramón Morel says that it is taking its time to rule on observations that citizens whose photograph on their cedula and that on the voting list are different be required to vote in the "observed" modality. Traditionally, observed votes are not counted, thus Participación Ciudadana civic movement, the PLD, the PRSC, former JCE judge Juan Sully Bonelly, and OAS observers have expressed their opposition to this ruling. All concur that citizens cannot be penalized for the JCE’s technical problems. This situation affects about 35,000 voters.
