Minutes after the close of the elections, there was still a crowd of people in the polling stations.
At around 5 o’clock in the afternoon, the polling stations begin with the closing of the ballot boxes after an election day marked by the influx of Salvadorans who took to the streets to vote.
The members of the 8,451 polling stations are preparing to start counting the votes, while the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) resets the system to start transmitting preliminary data.
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Despite the delay in opening the polling stations, the elections took place with few irregularities. Meanwhile, in the afternoon, minutes after the close of the JRVs, there is still a large influx of Salvadorans who want to vote.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal reported that the system will start recording data from 3 registrations registered by each committee receiving votes. He adds that it is a secure counting system that is activated with five keys in the hands of the magistrates of the electoral college who are responsible for starting the database.