{"id":122447,"date":"2019-02-11T13:37:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T13:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=122447"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:32:24","slug":"automated-voting-system-will-cost-a-lot-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/11\/automated-voting-system-will-cost-a-lot-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated voting system will cost a lot of money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Automated-vote-Diario-Libre-e1549975963991.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122485\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The automated voting system that the Central Electoral Board (JCE) wants to implement in the primaries set for 6 October 2019 would cost around RD$711.2 million, or 49% of the budget planned for these elections (RD$1.449 billion). The money would be spent to purchase the equipment and on the educational campaign to inform the public on its use. An estimated RD$561.2 million would be invested in equipment, testing and training, and the placement of kiosks in public places. Another RD$150 million would be used for the promotional campaign, including legal notices, materials and placement of ads in all sorts of media. RD$318 million is allotted to pay staff that will work the primaries, from the JCE all the way down to the people at the polling places. Another RD$281 million is allotted to operations expenses; RD$95 million for materials and RD$43 million for training. <br> The JCE established that the political parties that will be using the primary system to choose their candidates will contribute RD$200 million to the effort, and the government would pick up the rest of the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/el-voto-automatizado-encarecera-el-presupuesto-de-las-primarias-CH12041672\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 February 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The automated voting system that the Central Electoral Board (JCE) wants to implement in the primaries set for 6 October 2019 would cost around RD$711.2 million, or 49% of the budget planned for these elections (RD$1.449 billion). The money would be spent to purchase the equipment and on the educational campaign to inform the public &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/11\/automated-voting-system-will-cost-a-lot-of-money\/\" 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\/122447"}],"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=122447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122551,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122447\/revisions\/122551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}