{"id":120952,"date":"2019-01-09T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=120952"},"modified":"2019-01-09T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:29:55","slug":"jce-contemplates-electronic-voting-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/09\/jce-contemplates-electronic-voting-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"JCE contemplates electronic voting for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"871\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Electronic-Voting-Flickr-1024x871.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Electronic-Voting-Flickr.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Electronic-Voting-Flickr-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Electronic-Voting-Flickr-768x653.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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 Pa\u00eds and Opci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica met at the JCE on Tuesday, 8 January 2019 to discuss preparations for the open primaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These were Jos\u00e9 Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez Peguero, Braulio Fr\u00edas, Francis Reyes and V\u00edctor Mojica for the ruling PLD; Jose Ignacio Paliza, Carolina Mej\u00eda and Orlando Jorge Mera, Dionisio de los Santos and Roberto Arias for the PRM; Tony Pe\u00f1a Guaba, Janet Camilo, Te\u00f3filo Rosario, Wenceslao Mendieta and Juan Santiago for the PRD; Guillermo Moreno, Sergio Holgu\u00edn, Nestor Julio Rodr\u00edguez for Al Pa\u00eds; Minou Tavares, Jose Horacio Rodr\u00edguez and Jaime de la Rosa for Opci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The representatives sat through a demonstration of the proposed electronic voting technology lead by Miguel Angel Garc\u00eda, 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/la-jce-discute-con-cinco-partidos-logistica-y-tecnologia-primarias-HI11805673\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 January 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/09\/jce-contemplates-electronic-voting-for-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121001,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120952\/revisions\/121001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}