{"id":137685,"date":"2020-03-12T12:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=137685"},"modified":"2020-03-12T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:29:44","slug":"all-eyes-on-the-sunday-municipal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/all-eyes-on-the-sunday-municipal-election\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on the Sunday municipal election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Elecciones-2020-JCE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132079\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After the cancelation of the municipal election on 16 February 2020 following an e-voting glitch, the rescheduled extraordinary municipal elections set for 15 March are the most monitored in the history of the Dominican Republic. All eyes are on the process. The general outrage at the abortion of the election is expected to motivate young generations and independent voters to exercise their right to vote. Record turnouts are expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a time when distrust in the capacity of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) is at an all-time high. To restore confidence, the JCE has approved multiple measures to ensure greater transparency in the process. Among these is Resolution 20-20 that authorizes political parties to record the counting of the vote in the polling stations as of 5pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young voters have been invited to participate as observers and voter delegates for political parties that had not filled their quota for lack of participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, Resolution 19-20 authorizes a voter observer be named for those parties that do not have representation in the polling stations because they are participating as an ally of another party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resolution 28-20 names oversight delegates at the IT and Election divisions of the JCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/dominicanos-van-el-domingo-a-comicios-mas-observados-LD17630193\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the cancelation of the municipal election on 16 February 2020 following an e-voting glitch, the rescheduled extraordinary municipal elections set for 15 March are the most monitored in the history of the Dominican Republic. All eyes are on the process. The general outrage at the abortion of the election is expected to motivate young &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/all-eyes-on-the-sunday-municipal-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\/137685"}],"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=137685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137699,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137685\/revisions\/137699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}