Electoral Commissioner of the Democratic People’s Party (PPD), Gerardo Cruz Maldonado, reported today, Thursday, that he had asked the chairman of the State Electoral Commission (EEC), Francisco Rosado Colomer, to correct the disclosure of at least four polling stations for the Humacao Senate District.
This, as reported, is due to data entry errors identified by PPD officials and affecting the outcome of those elections.
“On December 31, I warned that the candidate for senator for the Popular Party, Hill Román, will prevail in that event. The manner and manner in which the work was carried out on the sidelines of the closure of the general inspection led the EEC itself to commit errors in entering the data, which led to the disclosure of incorrect information in Humacao, Maunabo and San Lorenzo. The corrections we are requesting increase 62 votes to Hill Román “, Cruz Maldonado declared in a press conference.
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The request made by Commissioner Cruz was accepted by a board of the Office of Electronic Systems and Procedures (Osipe) of the EEC, which will verify the results of the candidacies for senators for the district of Humacao. Cruz understands that the correction of the disclosures on the EEC website will affect the results of these applications. If Osipe is able to verify the information, the results disclosed so far are expected to be reversed.
“According to the result published on December 31, 2020 by OSIPE, Hill Román lost the election with 42 votes. However, I have always said that the accelerated way in which the work was carried out during the examination, especially with the JAVAA minutes, could cause human errors which we are now obliged to correct. Hill Roman will win. When these results are corrected, Hill Román will prevail with 20 votes “, said Cruz Maldonado.
Commissioner Cruz refused to sign the Humacao Senate election result certificate until such errors were corrected and said he had communicated the situation to both the new Senate President, José Luis Dalmau, and the hopeful Hill Román candidate. . that everything is corrected before the ordinary session of the Senate begins. “I cannot rule out that there are other errors in this district as in other sections of Puerto Rico. “The form and manner in which this general control was organized distanced itself from the valuable verification mechanisms used in other events that would have avoided so many errors,” Cruz concluded. The report will be received from OSIPE in the coming days.