Political parties have agreed that the infamous scanners that failed in the 2016 presidential elections can be used to transmit the results of the 15 March 2020 municipal election.
Orlando Jorge Mera, political delegate for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) said that the scanners will only be used to capture photos of the minutes at each polling station.
The equipment has been warehoused since 2016. The political parties say the devices need to be verified by the Organization of American States (OAS) technicians. Fingerprint readers will also be used to verify the identity of the voters for the presidential and congressional election in May.
The now-suspended information technology (IT) director of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Miguel Angel Garcia, had discarded the use of the equipment used in 2016, calling them obsolete. This led to the purchase of new electronic voting machines. The e-voting machines have been discarded after reports they were hacked for both the 6 October 2019 primary and the 16 February 2020 municipal election.
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N Digital
28 February 2020