According to Central Electoral Board president (JCE) Roberto Rosario, some seven million Dominicans will be able the vote in the 2016 presidential, municipal and congressional elections when the JCE will introduce a totally automated system using new technology. The JCE will be issuing new identity cards including the electoral information.
He says that the 2016 elections will be the most complicated in the last 20 years with around 4,130 posts up for grabs. He went on to say that the new identity cards would cost RD$500 million, which was included in the budget and it would take around a year and a half to provide them to everyone in time for the 2016 presidential, congressional and municipal elections.
He said that the JCE would replace manual vote counting and printing of the results sheets and automate it.
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