The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) has accused four key officials of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) of participating, in association with high-ranking members within the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), in the adulteration of the list of eligible voters and committing fraud to favor the ruling political party, reports El Caribe newspaper today. The charges include a claim that the voting stations of 980,000 eligible voters have been changed, without the electorate being duly notified. The allegations of these relocations would have affected the 2002 congressional and municipal elections, and even more so the voters in the upcoming May 2004 presidential election. Moreover, Franklin Almeyda, spokesman for the PLD, says that there are 100,000 people with duplicated cedulas, not 21,000 as was admitted by the JCE.
Those accused of such political partisanship actions by the PLD are Gilberto Cruz Herasme, director of elections; Franklin Frias, informatics; Mayra Goris, electoral registry, and Juan Carlos Sanchez, of ID cards.
As reported in Hoy, the PRSC had already requested the removal of these officers in documentation sent to the JCE.
For details of the accusations, see http://www.hoy.com.do/?module=displaystory&story_id=17781&format=html