The president of the State Election Commission (EEC), Francisco Rosado Colomer, He anticipated that he will decide between Friday night and Saturday whether to grant the petition for an advanced vote count in St. John to present the Citizen Victory Movement (MVC), And to which only the Puerto Rican Independentist Party (PIP).
Although he did not advance his determination, Rosat Colomer echoed several arguments presented by the New Progressive Party (PNP) in the writs that were delivered yesterday.
He also said he would not necessarily wait for party managers in the Absent and Advanced Voting Administrative Board (JAVA) present to you the report they prepare on the apparent mismatches that persist in the advanced voting units in the capital before issuing their resolution. It has not been reported when officials would deliver the document.
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“If it affects, yes (I would wait to read the report). One reads, evaluates and decides. I might need it, but I can’t tell you now. I’m in this phase of building based on the opinions of the parties, see what is the controversy as such and see how that kind of controversy is addressed, ”Rosat Colomer said.
“I can’t change the rules in the middle of the game, in terms of how things were executed and how they were done. Are you telling me ‘I did it wrong’? Because you did it, it didn’t being that someone else did it.How this interacts is part of the things I’m evaluating.If it was that someone else did it and you weren’t there, I can do an analysis, but it’s different when you are. If you make the gingerbread and your gingerbread burns, then it’s someone else’s fault? I have to see if that’s what’s going on here, ”the judge expressed.
In his letter, the electoral commissioner of the PNP, Hector Joaquin Sanchez, Assured that the scrutiny of JAVA was carried out in accordance with law and regulation, rejecting that there were irregularities related to the lack of acts of scrutiny or incidents in the briefcases, as raised by the MVC.
“There was a lot of concern that it would not happen what happened in the primary that acts would be disclosed (prior to the conclusion of the election event). It was agreed (keep them in separate briefcases), but after November 3 they to be available, they were photocopied, a trunk was found. All this happened but for some reason there are those who do not remember it. At the time of the scrutiny no one complained. The scrutiny was done “, stressed Rosat Colomer.
“The PNP says that our arguments are false using lies. They say that this has already been explained and that everyone agreed. For me the most surprising thing is that they say that the mismatch we are alleging is simply a mathematical error that can be solved and that is a mismatch between acts and ballots.The big mismatch is between voters and ballots and there is no way to square this.If it is of amount of ballots with the acts, something is wrong in the box “But it’s the list of the number of voters,” said Olvin Valentí, MVC’s election commissioner.
Valentí insisted that in the advanced voting cases of Sant Joan they were scrutinized without acts of scrutiny or incidence, a situation that, he says, has been corrected in subsequent seals.
“Now they have started bringing acts, but it was not given in the 1 to 5 seals,” the commissioner said.
“It is alarming that the MVC alleges that, in the 5 seals of San Juan, the number of ballots counted by Unit 77 (advanced voting) is considerably greater than the number of voters who voted for any of the modalities of early or absent voting that are reported in Unit 77. the MVC has had access to reconciliations and the matter has been repeatedly discussed in Committee, all agreeing that given the high volume of voters who requested the advance vote, the JAVAA had to manage the vote of about 220,000, instead of the approximately 15,000 who worked, which impacted their organization, “was part of what was expressed by Sanchez in the his argument rejecting the count.
The electoral commissioner of the Democratic People’s Party (PPD), Gerardo “Toñito” Creu, Validated in his writing the approaches on the absence of acts of scrutiny, and expressed that in essence a “copy paste” of the results of the night of the event provided by the Office of Information Systems and Electronic Processing, As well as the problems in consolidating results of different briefcases of a seal.
However, the Cross rejected the count as the appropriate procedural mechanism to address the discrepancies found.
“The solution to the problem cannot be worse than the problem itself. We are of the criterion of carrying out a countdown to nine days of culminating the working days available to close this process, it would be a solution that would add to the uncertainty, already that some of the public officials who are validated during the general scrutiny or count, by constitutional mandate must take an oath early in the month of January of the 2021 and nobody can assure that we will fulfill to certify such candidates previous to these oaths ” , reads his argument, in which he stresses that a count in San Juan would set a precedent for candidate and parties to request the same from other municipalities.
According to Cruz, the EEC should form balance sheets so that, culminating in the scrutiny of the 110 seals, those in which the results and lists of advanced voters “are examined” where the amount of mismatch can exceed the margin of victory of the elected candidate “.
“Only in the event that there is no possibility of a reasonable picture of a seal, will it be possible to count the ballots by machines, at the end of all the general scrutiny,” said the popular commissioner.
The Dignity Project, which opposed the count, has not provided this medium with its written argument.