Bernardo Vega comments today in El Caribe newspaper on the high cost Dominicans
have assumed so that their expatriated fellow Dominicans can vote. He says that
if each of the 52,600 Dominicans living abroad were to vote, it would mean a
cost of US$741 per vote, since the country has spent US$39 million to equip
voting stations abroad. Vega says that in 2008 it would be cheaper to rent
charters to fly in those Dominicans living in NYC and send the airfare to
Dominicans living in other parts.