Yomare Polanco, who ran for the overseas deputy position on the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) ticket, has asked the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to review some 5,667 annulled votes corresponding to his candidacy.
“Those annulled votes represent more than 5,000 voters who voted for me and were denied their constitutional right and me as their candidate, and the right to represent them,” Polanco said.
The overseas legislative candidate for the #1 constituency said that, of that total ofthose 5,000 null votes, in his home state of New Jersey alone, 1,300 ballots from his supporters were invalidated.
“I don’t want to underestimate or take credit away from a Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) that went to win, that went with everything, but they were calling the shots at the polling stations. Our mistake was thinking the Central Electoral Board (JCE) would do its job,” he said when interviewed by Julio Hazim on the TV program Revista 110.
Polanco complained he was the only candidate who has been denied a review of the annulled votes.
Constituency #1 includes New York, New Jersey, Washington and Pennsylvania.
Polanco said the 5 July election had many shortcomings in the United States. He mentioned the delay in the start of the process, the absence of JCE representatives at the polling stations, and the improvising improvisation of the staff during the process. “It was a chaotic election because at noon they had not yet begun the process and there were no polling station officials, who were replaced in an improvised manner,” he said.
Polanco said he has sufficient evidence to prove that he won the last elections and hopes that the TSE will agree to review the annulled votes in the United States.
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15 July 2020