Voting centers close and counting for municipal and parliamentary elections begins

The 1,595 voting centers started closing at 5 p.m. to allow for the number of votes in the municipal and parliamentary elections. Shortly before that, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) informed the Departmental Electoral Boards (JED) and Municipal Electoral Boards (JEM) that they should continue to enter people standing outside in line 10 minutes before the closing of the voting process of this.

In addition, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has performed the zeroing of the results processing system primaries. This provides assurance that the system will record results based on the information from the three records generated in each of the 8,451 JRVs.

The magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Noel Orellana, said tonight that if the provisional vote counting system fails anyway, the electoral body will be ready.

Polling stations count in San Benito

“We have not one, but two contingency plans to implement in the event that the technology on the table fails, we are optimistic it wouldn’t happen, but if this happens we have all the necessary measures in place, including, as in the last resort we can even fill in by hand the same formats of the minutes, completed by hand with the approval of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Office of the Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights and observers, who will attest to the transparency that these exceptional problems that may arise when the votes are counted, ”said Orellana.

The start of the day was marked by some delay. Attorney General Raúl Melara said more than 38 polling stations opened more than 40 minutes late this Sunday.

JRV carries out counts at the Hipódromo Boulevard Voting Center, San Benito, San Salvador

During the day there were some accidents, such as the one involving Osiris Luna, Director General of Penal Centers and Deputy Minister of Justice, who was accused of violently entering the polling station along with other members of Nuevas Ideas and interfering with the installation of the Voting Board without being accredited.

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The voting center in the Masferrer Educational Center in Usulután closed at exactly 5 pm. Photo EDH / Jorge Reyes

The event took place in Guaymango, Ahuachapán. In a video broadcast on social networks, a man who appears to be the civil servant is forcibly opened the school gate. Luna also arrived at the Francisco Gavidia School Center, in El Refugio, Ahuachapán, to speak for representatives of the New Ideas party to join the JRV without having the respective accreditation. This was questioned by the chairman of the Municipal Electoral Council (JEM), Aura Lissethe Herrera.

During election day, there were no major disagreements in the voting centers. The election event was followed by about 40,000 security personnel, including police and military, and international observers.

As part of the international observers, Otto Madrid, of the independent Center for Exchange and Solidarity (CIS), said the vote at the Albert Camus National Institute, in the capital’s Colonia Centroamérica, started with a delay of 30 minutes. but not he saw nothing to suggest fraud, a fact that the executive has pushed without evidence since the start of the election campaign.

It was a calm mood. I notice that so many older adults have arrived, even in wheelchairs, ”noted Madrid.

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The OAS observer mission made a “strong call” not to spread false information on social media and on social media.

Jesuit University José Simeón Cañas (UCA) warned in an editorial that the elections will be held “in an atmosphere of tension and confrontation that could lead to violence and question the results”.

In addition, ask the United States not to confirm that there is fraud where it does not exist

Bukele ignored the ban on the broadcasting of political messages three days before the vote, and was broadcast via television commercials calling for his allies to vote and criticize his opponents. In addition to the press conference held in the afternoon where he attacked the TSE and discredited the work of the institution, and he also directed the vote on his party.

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