The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Román Jáquez told El Caribe that so far the cut of the electoral roll for the 2024 general elections is 8.32 million citizens eligible to vote. He said the goal is to register one million Dominicans living abroad to bring the eligible voters to 8.6 or 8.7 million possible voters.
Jáquez told El Caribe that the voter roll has grown by half a million voters compared to 2020, when the voter list was 7.53 million. If the JCE’s projection of the voter roll reaching 8.6 million registered voters is fulfilled, by 2024 there would be more than one million new voters compared to 2020.
Jáquez explained that the overseas voter roll went from 595,000 in the 2020 elections to 727,237 registered as of Monday, 20 February 2023, or 148,000 additional voters compared to 2020.
In addition to media campaigns underway, Jaquez said that to achieve the registration of more than 250 thousand people pending to be registered abroad, the JCE is developing a digital system of pre-registration and a previous appointment to facilitate the registration of interested persons.
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El Caribe
21 February 2023