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NewsWhore
05-18-2006, 02:17 PM
Civic group Participacion Ciudadana awarded high grades to the Dominican Republic for the customary civism demonstrated on election day, but gave a thumbs down on the performance of the political parties. As reported in Hoy newspaper, politicians consistently violated the rules of the game established by the Electoral Law. One flagrant violation was the promotion of voting choices in the electoral premises by the political party delegates. The civic group also says that the vote counting system in place is extremely slow. In addition, PC criticized some shops for selling alcoholic beverages, despite the ban on these until two hours after the polls were closed.

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