NewsWhore
04-18-2011, 08:10 PM
Citizens in the Dominican Republic used to have to pay RD$15,000-RD$30,000 in legal fees and endure long waits for the legal system to correct changes in their digital birth certificates. All these errors were clearly not the citizens' fault, but were obviously caused when the Central Electoral Board (JCE) digitalized the handwritten registrations. Nonetheless, citizens were made to pay for the costly process to correct the errors. It was good business for judges and lawyers, but very expensive for citizens.
The JCE has finally announced it would make the changes free of charge upon announcing the ruling now in place to handle the corrections.
On Friday JCE president Roberto Rosario admitted that thousands of typing errors had been made when the manual registration system was converted to digital. The JCE will install systems to rapidly correct all the errors. Rosario said that in April and May the systems will be installed and staff trained to be ready for massive correction program as of June, as reported in Listin Diario. Meanwhile, corrections are already being made at no charge.
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The JCE has finally announced it would make the changes free of charge upon announcing the ruling now in place to handle the corrections.
On Friday JCE president Roberto Rosario admitted that thousands of typing errors had been made when the manual registration system was converted to digital. The JCE will install systems to rapidly correct all the errors. Rosario said that in April and May the systems will be installed and staff trained to be ready for massive correction program as of June, as reported in Listin Diario. Meanwhile, corrections are already being made at no charge.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)