{"id":137429,"date":"2020-03-05T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=137429"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:24:24","slug":"the-vote-of-dominican-expats-abroad-could-be-decisive-in-the-2020-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/05\/the-vote-of-dominican-expats-abroad-could-be-decisive-in-the-2020-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The vote of Dominican expats abroad could be decisive in the 2020 presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Voto-en-el-exterior-El-Caribe-e1583421856870.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137441\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>589,497 Dominicans have registered to vote abroad in the 17 May 2020 presidential elections, according to a report in El Caribe. 68% of the expat vote is in the United States with 401,117 eligible voters. Dominican voters in Spain are next with 13% of the vote, or 81,093 registered voters. Dominicans in Puerto Rico are next with 35,209 voters for 5.97%, followed by those in Italy with 14,498, and in Panama with 11,174 voters. Historically, about 50% of those registered to vote actually vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign electoral district is regarded as the fourth largest in the country. It is only surpassed by Santo Domingo province with 1,654,754 voters; the National District, 854,602 voters; Santiago, 838,428. San Crist\u00f3bal is in fifth place, with 431,750 voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to direct voting, Dominicans abroad could have a great impact on voting because they are the main economic support for many families in the country, El Caribe reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2016 elections, in the expat vote the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) defeated the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) by a slight margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local polls have not taken into account the vote intention of the expat voters. Dominican living abroad have been voting in national elections since 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/03\/04\/voto-exterior-tendra-gran-incidencia-en-la-boleta-presidencial\/\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>589,497 Dominicans have registered to vote abroad in the 17 May 2020 presidential elections, according to a report in El Caribe. 68% of the expat vote is in the United States with 401,117 eligible voters. Dominican voters in Spain are next with 13% of the vote, or 81,093 registered voters. Dominicans in Puerto Rico are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/05\/the-vote-of-dominican-expats-abroad-could-be-decisive-in-the-2020-presidential-election\/\" 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\/137429"}],"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=137429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137442,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137429\/revisions\/137442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}