{"id":131991,"date":"2019-10-15T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=131991"},"modified":"2019-10-16T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:09:53","slug":"jce-accepts-to-audit-automated-voting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/15\/jce-accepts-to-audit-automated-voting-system\/","title":{"rendered":"JCE accepts to audit automated voting system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Julio-Cesar-Casta\u00f1os-JCE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Julio-Cesar-Casta\u00f1os-JCE.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Julio-Cesar-Casta\u00f1os-JCE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Julio-Cesar-Casta\u00f1os-JCE-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) announced it would contract an international company to verify the automated voting system used for the 6 October PLD primary. The announcement comes after former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez insisted on the request and presented new evidence of tampering on Monday, 14 October 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez has requested that the audit be carried out by a special mission under the supervision of the Organization of American States (OAS), the United States government and the European Union. He rejected that the JCE select the auditing outfit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orlando Jorge Mera, Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) delegate, told Hoy newspaper that the president of the JCE had told him the audit could cost US$10 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Dia reports on the rising cost of democracy in the Dominican Republic. The editorialist complains: &#8220;We have spent a fortune to purchase new equipment for the elections\u2026 Our political class has not matured and will make the people pay for the broken dishes. The mess should be paid by them.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/auditoria-al-software-voto-automatizado-costaria-us10-mm\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/10\/15\/586924\/jce-auditara-y-leonel-pone-requisitos\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2019\/10\/14\/leonel-solo-estaria-de-acuerdo-con-auditoria-dispuesta-por-la-jce-si-hay-organismos-internacionales-presentes\/\">N Digital<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/democracia-encarecida-2\/\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) announced it would contract an international company to verify the automated voting system used for the 6 October PLD primary. The announcement comes after former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez insisted on the request and presented new evidence of tampering on Monday, 14 October 2019. Fern\u00e1ndez has requested that the audit be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/15\/jce-accepts-to-audit-automated-voting-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131991"}],"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=131991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132078,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131991\/revisions\/132078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}