Toñito Cruz denounces the finding of ballots corresponding to Johnny Méndez’s representative district

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The election commissioner of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), Gerardo “Toñito” Cruz, this Tuesday denounced the alleged discovery of 228 ballots of each modality corresponding to the Fajardo Precinct 99, which the official said could trigger a recount in the contest for District 36 currently occupying the chairman. of the House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez.

According to the Commissioner, the ballots were found in a briefcase in Guayama. District 36, however, includes the municipalities of Ceiba, Vieques, Culebra, Fajardo, Luquillo and a district of Río Grande. He stated that the ballots were found yesterday when officials at one of the tables of the Administrative Council for Absence and Early Voting (JAVA) opened a briefcase from the Guayama district.

“With these legislative votes, we dare to anticipate that hundreds of votes will be awarded for Representative District 36, so we need to investigate whether this district will fall under the recount.. They are ballots that have not been counted for any candidate and, according to what they told us, could especially favor the popular candidate from Representative District 36, Juan “Tito” Gómez, “Cruz said in a press release.

According to data from the State Election Commission, On the evening of the event, Méndez led the popular candidate with 270 votes, but Cruz assures that significant changes could occur with the ballots that appear.

Cruz also explained that in Luquillo’s Precinct 100, three more schools of JAVA from Unit 74 that match the Oct. 31 vote and a Unit 6 school from Luquillo have yet to be counted.

“School 3 of Unit 6 of Luquillo did not announce any results, but it was a unit that Mayor Jerry Márquez comfortably won, but that Representative Johnny Méndez and the rest of the PNP leadership won the night of the event. However, Unit 74, which includes voters who voted early October 31, out of a total of seven schools, announced only four, with three more to be announced, ”Cruz explains. “The disclosed schools seem to comfortably favor the PPD for all applications. About 200 votes cannot be allocated at these three schools “he added.

According to EEC data, Gómez retains an advantage of 186 votes over Méndez in unit 74 of JAVAA de Luquillo. Cruz indicated that once the votes are counted, the district is expected to go into a recount.

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