NewsWhore
06-18-2010, 04:00 PM
The PRD says it will appeal the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Disputes Chamber decision reversing the original order for a vote recount in Oviedo in the province of Pedernales. In a press release, party secretary general Orlando Jorge Mera said that they would give notice of an appeal and continue their fight to obtain a recount.
The note defined the Disputes Chamber decision as "absurd and lacking in a legal basis", because the PLD did not present evidence to challenge the need for a recount, but that instead, the chamber judges had given in "to public and private pressures".
"Despite having cancelled Act A-1 (for congressional seats) for that voting district, this invalidation only applied to the 99 PRD preferential votes and not for the 64 preferential votes for the PLD that are compiled in Act A of voting district 009", said Jorge Mera, as he criticized the rejection of the previously approved recount.
The decision to not recount the votes grants the Pedernales senate seat to PLD candidate Dionis Sanchez, with 14 votes over his PRD rival Saturnino Espinal.
JCE Judge John Guiliani said the PRD already questioned the physical votes that could have been tampered with as they had been deposited in hands of the Election Board that responds to the Administrative Chamber from 16 May to 16 June. The Administrative Chamber director is said to be the ruling party strongman in the JCE. Guiliani said that any recount would have been questioned by the PRD anyway, as reported in Listin Diario.
Judge Aura Celeste Fernandez said that the PLD did not provide elements with sufficient weight to annul the decision for the recount. She said the lack of trust in the veracity of the actual votes was not enough to annul the recount.
Dissident JCE judge Eddy Olivares said that what should have been done was to order a new election in Oviedo.
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The note defined the Disputes Chamber decision as "absurd and lacking in a legal basis", because the PLD did not present evidence to challenge the need for a recount, but that instead, the chamber judges had given in "to public and private pressures".
"Despite having cancelled Act A-1 (for congressional seats) for that voting district, this invalidation only applied to the 99 PRD preferential votes and not for the 64 preferential votes for the PLD that are compiled in Act A of voting district 009", said Jorge Mera, as he criticized the rejection of the previously approved recount.
The decision to not recount the votes grants the Pedernales senate seat to PLD candidate Dionis Sanchez, with 14 votes over his PRD rival Saturnino Espinal.
JCE Judge John Guiliani said the PRD already questioned the physical votes that could have been tampered with as they had been deposited in hands of the Election Board that responds to the Administrative Chamber from 16 May to 16 June. The Administrative Chamber director is said to be the ruling party strongman in the JCE. Guiliani said that any recount would have been questioned by the PRD anyway, as reported in Listin Diario.
Judge Aura Celeste Fernandez said that the PLD did not provide elements with sufficient weight to annul the decision for the recount. She said the lack of trust in the veracity of the actual votes was not enough to annul the recount.
Dissident JCE judge Eddy Olivares said that what should have been done was to order a new election in Oviedo.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)