JCE pauses process

[NewsWhore]

The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced that it has paused the control and modernization process of its civil registries because a reported RD$20 million monthly deficit has caused a financial crisis at the JCE. The process, which began this past March, will affect 104 civil registries in Santo Domingo and throughout the Dominican Republic. Diario Libre writes that to date 51 registries had received some of the new equipment that was promised. Roberto Rosario, president of the JCE Administrative Chamber says that the deficit that the JCE is facing is only affecting the modernization of the civil registries. Rosario also said that the RD$25 million per month in revenues that the JCE receives through cedula processing and other civil registry process does not cover the registries' monthly costs.

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