{"id":8872,"date":"2005-02-08T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/where-the-election-money-goes\/"},"modified":"2005-02-08T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T01:43:56","slug":"where-the-election-money-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2005\/02\/08\/where-the-election-money-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the election money goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A report on Central Electoral Board (JCE) finances indicates that the payroll has increased from RD$26 million under former JCE president Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda to RD$48 million under the present leadership of Luis Arias. The new board attributes the increase to rising wages. The Morel Cerda administration increased the payroll from RD$7 million as of 22 August 1998 to RD$26 million in 2003. Likewise, the JCE spent RD$201 million in 2004 on &#8220;unexpected expenses.&#8221; Taxpayers&#8217; money has funded RD$1.46 billion in JCE expenditure, most of which was invested in preparations for the 2004 May election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report on Central Electoral Board (JCE) finances indicates that the payroll has increased from RD$26 million under former JCE president Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda to RD$48 million under the present leadership of Luis Arias. The new board attributes the increase to rising wages. The Morel Cerda administration increased the payroll from RD$7 million as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2005\/02\/08\/where-the-election-money-goes\/\" 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":[224,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872"}],"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=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}