“Despite being warned to cast his vote in a place where it did not correspond,” confirmed prosecutor Raul Melara.
The Attorney General of the Republic, Raúl Melara, has confirmed the capture of a citizen in the east of the country for having voted in a center where it does not correspond to him.
Police identified him as Josué Gómez Turcios and published the image of the capture that took place in La Unión. The detainee, he said, is a vigilante of the ARENA party. “This person voted knowing that he was excluded from the register for having been previously convicted of another criminal offense,” Police reported
Melara said that although he was warned that it was not his responsibility to cast his vote at the polling station, which he did not identify, the citizen ignored him, so he was caught and charged with the crime of electoral fraud. in the courts.
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“Despite being warned to cast his vote in a place where it did not correspond to him,” Melara confirmed.
The Penal Code establishes as electoral fraud: “Whoever with the purpose of voting in a constituency other than the one that legally corresponds to him, changes his address or modifies his place of residence in his DUI.”
The penalty for these crimes is four to six years, but if the subjects involved in the above conduct were public officials or election officials, they will be punished with seven to ten years in prison and will be disqualified from practicing. of charge.
On the other hand, Melara recalled that they keep thousands of electoral prosecutors (1,982) in all polling stations to ensure that the vote of Salvadorans is respected.
So far, the attorney general said, in addition to the catch for election fraud, prosecutors’ reports are related to the difficulty of installing polling stations, which led to a late opening of the polling stations.