The Supreme Electoral Tribunal upheld the trial from 100% of the minutes. According to the TSE chairman, the results of the preliminary investigation were reconfirmed.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has confirmed that 100% of the data has been processed and that the data released in the preliminary vote has confirmed where the New Ideas party has settled as the one having the most votes in the election received and will remain a qualified majority in the Salvadoran Congress for the next parliamentary term 2021-2024.
“As the trend consolidated, it is the party with the highest votes, the largest delegates and the trends did not change, the preliminary investigation was almost consolidated,” said TSE Chairman Dora Esmeralda Martínez.
TSE magistrate Guillermo Wellman said they are already preparing the minutes of the final audit and assured they will convene a press conference by Tuesday next week to announce the consolidated release.
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Yesterday, three tables that worked in the morning, from the departments of La Unión, San Salvador and Sonsonate, which closed the control and which had been introduced into the system, were missing, the magistrates of the court said.
“ The law stipulates that for the conclusion of the audit, in order to make the minutes, it must be done by a qualified majority, that is to say with four votes, that would be until the following week, we can be a national channel that on Monday, “he said. Martinez.
He added that the TSE does not undertake to set a day to release the minutes of the results of the final check, as these must be carefully assessed on the basis of the election data, and then publish and inform political parties, so that the deadline allows the body to receive annulment appeals, “if one of the political institutions disagrees with the final vote, the means of contestation is made possible as determined by the electoral law” , he said.
Regarding the use of technological equipment in upcoming elections, the magistrate pointed out that every electoral process has flaws that have been resolved during this electoral process and that lessons have been learned from the February 28 elections.
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“Every election process has its flaws. We are not going to say that we did not have any incidents, you know how the technological system was questioned and the failures we had that were publicly accepted, but that they were resolved by proof of security codes, proof of attacks in the day of the February 28 election event, in which we worked with the technicians from the Cryptological Center (National) of Spain so that we did not have cyber attacks, ”he explained.
He added that the TSE has made transcendental progress in the implementation of the technology and that it has been recognized in electoral matters at the Latin American level, where international observers, who have been vigilant of the electoral process, also pointed to the importance of modernizing the technology. election process. .
“There are many challenges. The system needs maturity in the next elections in 2024, there is a lot to work on, the vote abroad is also coming and a system must be designed where there are no delays and that the dream of Salvadoran compatriots living in other countries is fulfilled. that they can vote, ”said Martínez.
The TSE magistrate, Noel Orellana, confirmed that they were working on the minutes and the decision of the last review since yesterday: “I believe that we as the Supreme Electoral Tribunal are going to give a joint position to share exactly with the media (the results ) ”, He indicated.
He said they have done a quick analysis of the results of the latest research and the development of the electoral process, “later we are going to do a survey to reinforce what worked, and improve what may not have worked as we expected”.
He added that, as in any process, there are industries that have noted that the election process and technology implementation have worked for the election, but there will be other voices pointing to the opposite.
“We as an institution will take into account everything that is good, everything that contributes, to strengthen future electoral processes,” said the official.
He also noted that the magistrates have read reports from international organizations on the development of the electoral process and the preliminary and final investigations, which are positive for the TSE as they recognize the transparency and work of the organization.
“With great humility we may adopt them as the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, but it is with great joy and great joy that institutions such as the (National) Cryptological Institute of Spain, the OAS themselves recognize the work, the transparency with which the Tribunal has. acted. Supreme Electoral, ”he said.
Orellana stated that the Office of the Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights also recognized the transparency of the TSE’s electoral process.
He added that there has been criticism of the time it took the Court to publish the results, but acknowledges that hard work was done at the tables to complete the count as soon as possible, ‘for the first time perhaps in the last six elections. One hundred percent of the minutes have been examined, that is, the will of all those Salvadorans who came out to vote was counted and respected ”.