The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is pleased with the pace of Dominicans applying for their new ID documents.<\/p>\n
The president of the JCE, Roberto Rosario said that 30% of the population already has the new “cedula”. <\/p>\n
He announced on Saturday, 23 August 2014 that 2,702,594 people have requested the document, and 2,220,310 documents had been issued. This is about 30% of the seven million cards that need to be issued in time for the 2016 national election. <\/p>\n
The JCE has set an 18-month timeframe for the card-issuing process that began in mid-April 2014. <\/p>\n
Rosario announced that more mobile units would be deployed. The mobile centers have processed 611,210 people and issued 507,617 IDs.<\/p>\n
He said that overseas, 17,498 people have requested their ID and 14,869 have obtained the document. <\/p>\n
There are 67 mobile centers and 174 fixed centers nationwide. There are 10 in operation abroad, which see around 35,000 applicants a day. <\/p>\n
The JCE president said they have yet to install card-issuing centers in only three municipalities of the country’s 158 municipalities. <\/p>\n
The ID cards also serve as voter registration cards for Dominican citizens and will be required to vote in the 2016 presidential, congressional and municipal election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is pleased with the pace of Dominicans applying for their new ID documents. The president of the JCE, Roberto Rosario said that 30% of the population already has the new “cedula”. He announced on Saturday, 23 August 2014 that 2,702,594 people have requested the document, and 2,220,310 documents had been … <\/p>\n