NewsWhore
02-05-2008, 07:20 PM
Today's Diario Libre editorial criticizes the Central Electoral Board's decision to purchase 32 power generators and hundreds of scanners for use on Election Day, 16 May. The editorialist points out that the investment is enormous, there is a risk of obsolescence, and the equipment will be only used once every two years at most. It wonders if it would not be possible to lease this equipment for a week, or borrow it from the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL). The JCE announced that the 740 scanners would cost RD$230 million. "This expense does not seem reasonable, it is almost as if this country were swimming in gold and there were money for all the whims of Dominican bureaucracy that has very little frugality ingrained in it," writes the newspaper.
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