The magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) were summoned this morning to the Legislative Assembly at the commission for electoral affairs to analyze the use of mass technology after the simulation held on Sunday.
Opposition MPs were strong on Monday in their speech after the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) simulation in which some defects were detected which must be corrected before 28 February.
However, the Government insists on not using technology on the table, arguing that the process will not be reliable, but ARENA MPs René Portillo Cuadra; and Rodolfo Parker, of the PDC, have another reading of the statements of EST President Dora Esmeralda Martínez, who suggested that it is better to track the number of votes manually.
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“The fact that the exercise was not completed yesterday (Sunday) does not mean fraud. The only ones talking about fraud at the moment are those who consider themselves defeated and defeated “, said Portillo Cuadra.
Parker, for his part, explained that when it was agreed to put the technology on the table in which all parties and even the government participated, no one protested, so he believes that if the manual process is passed, there will be no more sheets of paper. , quickly, not even with the paper that is written on it and there are copies for each representation of the party and that there are no longer the minimum elements to return to the manual part.
“Don’t you trust your JRVs?” Don’t you trust vigilantes? From the heads of the center? Some of your supervisors? Where fraud can occur is in the JRV, but if you have not done so, your party (GANA) will also have a representative in each JRV. Only the losers who are not given the numbers talk about fraud “, declared the deputy Cristina Cornejo, from FMLN.
Cornejo added that it is clear that while Nuevas Ideas could become the largest legislative faction in the Assembly after February 28, they will not have the results they expect, “therefore it must generate a previous fraud problem,” he said. the deputy. deputy.
The official New Ideas party played in an atmosphere of tension at the close of the first national exercise held on Sunday by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
At the end of the test of the preliminary system for the transmission of election results, the TSE held a press conference and at the end of the interrogation stage, the representative of the Supervisory Committee of the New Ideas Party suddenly spoke to question the logical fraud against the TSE as GANA and President Bukele have seen.
EST magistrates explain the use of technology at the election table
On Monday morning, TSE magistrates came to the Legislative Assembly at the Electoral Affairs Committee to explain the use of table technology on election day.
So far, the Court has instructed the people who will be on the voting committees (JRVs) to use the technological equipment. EST is preparing to use a modern technological system for recording the preliminary control to be implemented in JRVs.
Asked in this regard a few days ago, Magistrate Noel Orellana explained that, despite the criticism and distrust that may arise for the first time when this system will be implemented, this technology will ensure greater transparency and conciseness to convey the decision to citizens. “Never adapt to the implementation of technology, I think we will never be able to catch up and we will be obsolete,” he said.
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According to the Court, the idea is to use the technological material so that JRV members can carry out the preliminary control after 17:00, when the election time ends by the voters.
Each JRV will be equipped with a technology box containing a laptop, a specific charger, an HDMI cable (to connect the laptop to the projector that will be used at the time of counting) and a scanner.