{"id":135199,"date":"2020-01-16T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=135199"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:39:30","slug":"most-municipal-officials-to-be-elected-by-printed-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/16\/most-municipal-officials-to-be-elected-by-printed-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Most municipal officials to be elected by printed ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Voto-Manual-El-Caribe-e1579192744940.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135227\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) in its Resolution 01\/2020 orders that in the February elections, 3,849 positions to be defined: 987 will be elected with automated voting and 2,862 with ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the municipal elections on 16 February, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) has decided to implement a hybrid voting modality that consists of using the automated voting system in 18 municipalities of the country and in the remaining 140, the traditional printed ballots system will be used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported in El Caribe, while the 18 municipalities where the automated vote will be used are the largest in number of voters, they are not the places where the largest number of officials will be elected. This means that most of the mayors, vice-mayors and council members to be elected are in the 140 municipalities where the printed ballots will be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Electoral Board ordered that automated voting technology be used in municipalities where 13 or more city councilors are to be elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the National District; Hig\u00fcey and its 3 municipal districts; San Francisco de Macor\u00eds and its 4 municipal districts; Moca and its 7 municipal districts; La Romana and 1 municipal district; La Vega and its 4 municipal districts. Also in Bonao and its 5 municipal districts; Ban\u00ed and its 8 municipal districts; Puerto Plata and its 2 municipal districts; San Crist\u00f3bal and its 2 municipal districts; San Juan de la Maguana, and its 10 municipal districts and San Pedro de Macor\u00eds. Also Santiago de los Caballeros and its 5 municipal districts; Santo Domingo East and its municipal district; Santo Domingo West; Santo Domingo North and its municipal district; Los Alcarrizos and its 2 municipal districts and, Mao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/01\/16\/2862-funcionarios-municipales-seran-elegidos-con-boletas\/\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 January 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) in its Resolution 01\/2020 orders that in the February elections, 3,849 positions to be defined: 987 will be elected with automated voting and 2,862 with ballots. For the municipal elections on 16 February, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) has decided to implement a hybrid voting modality that consists of using &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/16\/most-municipal-officials-to-be-elected-by-printed-ballots\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135199"}],"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=135199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135228,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135199\/revisions\/135228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}