The Central Electoral Board (JCE) told the five political parties that have registered for open primaries (those in which any registered voter can vote to choose the presidential candidate and other elective posts candidates of a specific political party) that electronic voting may be implemented in the 2020 general election to reduce costs. The representatives of the PLD, PRM, PRD, Al País and Opción Democrática met at the JCE on Tuesday, 8 January 2019 to discuss preparations for the open primaries.
These were José Manuel Hernández Peguero, Braulio Frías, Francis Reyes and Víctor Mojica for the ruling PLD; Jose Ignacio Paliza, Carolina Mejía and Orlando Jorge Mera, Dionisio de los Santos and Roberto Arias for the PRM; Tony Peña Guaba, Janet Camilo, Teófilo Rosario, Wenceslao Mendieta and Juan Santiago for the PRD; Guillermo Moreno, Sergio Holguín, Nestor Julio Rodríguez for Al País; Minou Tavares, Jose Horacio Rodríguez and Jaime de la Rosa for Opción Democrática.
The representatives sat through a demonstration of the proposed electronic voting technology lead by Miguel Angel García, technology director of the JCE. The system was created by technical staff of the JCE. The JCE has estimated the open primaries would cost RD$3.1 billion.
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Diario Libre
9 January 2019
