Voter registration will close with some 6.5 million electors
The new voters numbered 470,440 and 112,538 changed their polling stations
Diario Libre
SD. The voter registration rolls will close with some 6.5 million voters for the presidential elections of May, 2012, and they will be 470,440 new voters.
According to the count of the voter registration lists as of 1 June, 2010 and up to 17 October of this year, the number of new voters was 320,368; and these were part of a total of 6,430,827 registered voters.
Yesterday, with the last count of the registration rolls at the close of the deadline for changing information and new registrations-which ended on Tuesday 20 December at midnight-they added 150,072 new voters, so that the total number of voters on the registration rolls is 6,580,899.
The director of communications for the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Felix Reyna, reported yesterday during a press conference that offered the information of the close of the voter registrations that starting now they will begin a process of reviews and inspections of documents together with the delegates of the political parties whit the aim of elaborating the final voter registration lists by next January.
He noted that, nonetheless, overseas they would continue with the gathering of voter registrations until 20 January 2012. He added that, moreover, the duplicates of "cédulas" that were lost or badly damages would continue to be issued until the day before the elections.
Latest changes
Besides the newly registered voters at the national level and overseas, they performed over a million changes (of addresses, places for voting and such) between the first of June 2010 and 20 December of last year.
Among these changes, 112,538 persons requested a change of polling station. At the same time they issued 693,005 duplicates; 166,426 changes of minor information; 92,739 changes of important information; 32,571 actualizations of birth, death, marriage or divorce certificates; 26,664 renovations with important changes and 7,626 changes of status from military to civilian.
And also, there are a total of 28,229 requests pending processing, both at the national level as well as overseas.
According to the count of the voter registration lists as of 1 June, 2010 and up to 17 October of this year, the number of new voters was 320,368; and these were part of a total of 6,430,827 registered voters.
Yesterday, with the last count of the registration rolls at the close of the deadline for changing information and new registrations-which ended on Tuesday 20 December at midnight-they added 150,072 new voters, so that the total number of voters on the registration rolls is 6,580,899.
The director of communications for the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Felix Reyna, reported yesterday during a press conference that offered the information of the close of the voter registrations that starting now they will begin a process of reviews and inspections of documents together with the delegates of the political parties whit the aim of elaborating the final voter registration lists by next January.
He noted that, nonetheless, overseas they would continue with the gathering of voter registrations until 20 January 2012. He added that, moreover, the duplicates of "cédulas" that were lost or badly damages would continue to be issued until the day before the elections.
Latest changes
Besides the newly registered voters at the national level and overseas, they performed over a million changes (of addresses, places for voting and such) between the first of June 2010 and 20 December of last year.
Among these changes, 112,538 persons requested a change of polling station. At the same time they issued 693,005 duplicates; 166,426 changes of minor information; 92,739 changes of important information; 32,571 actualizations of birth, death, marriage or divorce certificates; 26,664 renovations with important changes and 7,626 changes of status from military to civilian.
And also, there are a total of 28,229 requests pending processing, both at the national level as well as overseas.
Diario Libre