“Despite being warned, he cast his vote where it did not belong,” prosecutor Raúl Melara confirmed.
The Republic’s Attorney General Raúl Melara has confirmed the arrest of a citizen in the east of the country for voting in a center where it does not match.
The police identified him as Josué Gómez Turcios and published the image of the capture that took place in La Unión. The detainee, he said, is a vigilante from the ARENA party. “This person voted in the knowledge that he had been banned from the register because he had previously been convicted of another criminal offense,” police reported.
Melara said that despite being warned that it was not up to him to vote at the polling station, that he did not identify, the citizen ignored him so he was arrested and will be charged with the crime of electoral fraud in the court. .
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“Despite being warned, he cast his vote where it didn’t belong,” confirms Melara.
The Criminal Code establishes as electoral fraud: “Who for the purpose of voting in a district other than the one legally corresponding to him, changes his address or changes his residence in his DUI.”
The penalty for these crimes will be four to six years, but if the subjects who participated in the previous behaviors were public officials or election officials, they will be punished with seven to ten years’ imprisonment and disqualified from office. .
On the other hand, Melara recalled that they keep thousands of electoral prosecutors (1982) in all voting centers to ensure that Salvadorans’ voices are respected.
So far, according to the attorney general, prosecutors’ reports, in addition to the arrest for electoral fraud, are linked to the difficulty of setting up voting tables, which led to a late opening of polling stations.