JCE inventoried more than 116,000 Civil Registry books

Roberto Rosario says auditing this number of books represents a record

SANTO DOMINGO. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) reported yesterday, that in compliance with sentence 168 - 13 which ordered them to carry out an audit of the Civil Registry from 1929 until 2007, the agency inventoried 116,506 books, which contained 16,748,568 folios.

A report presented last night by the President of the JCE, Roberto Rosario, indicates that in all of the specifications of acts (birth certificates), they found that there were 53,827 books, which contained 10,321,799 folios, provided files of persons to be reviewed.

Rosario said that in order to audit this number of books with more than 10 million folios, which in turn represented a variety of caseloads in the documentation found, and in a record time, is a effort worthy of recognition and praise, for all the public servants in the JCE.

He said that in the end they were able to prove that of the total number of folios audited, the findings in the Civil Registry, which identified the case files, or acts with possible irregularities, in the period established, barely represent 0.58%, and so, of the rest, which is to say 99.42%, there was no evidence of inconsistencies in the acts registered.

"The fact that around 53,000 case files that identify persons have had their expedition and transcription authorized, in accordance with the law, shows the level of professionalism with which this was handled by the personnel of the JCE," he pointed out.