The electoral commissioner of the Democratic People’s Party (PPD), Gerardo Creu Maldonado, Reported today, Thursday, that he asked the chairman of the State Election Commission (EEC), Francisco Rosado Colomer, To correct the disclosure of at least four polling stations for the Humacao Senatorial District.
This, he reported, is due to data entry errors identified by PPP officials and affecting the outcome of this election.
“On December 31, I warned that the candidate for senator for the Popular Party, Hill Roman, would prevail in this event. The way and manner in which the work was carried out at the close of the general election led to the same EEC to make data entry errors which allowed incorrect information to be disclosed in the precincts of Humacao, Maunabo and San Lorenzo. The corrections we request increase 62 votes in Hill Román “, said Cruz Maldonado in conference of press.
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The request made by Commissioner Cruz was accepted so a Board of the Office of Electronic Systems and Procedures (Osipe) of the EEC, must verify the results for the candidacies for senators for the Humacao District. Creu understands that the correction of the disclosures on the EEC website will affect the results in these applications. If Osipe manages to ascertain the information it is expected that the results reported so far will be reversed.
“According to the result that was published on December 31, 2020, by OSIPE, Hill Roman lost the election by 42 votes. However, we always said that the accelerated way in which the works were being carried out during the “scrutiny, particularly with the acts of JAVAA could lead to human errors that today we are forced to correct. Hill Roman will end up winning his seat. When these results are corrected, Hill Roman will prevail by 20 votes,” said Cruz Maldonado.
Commissioner Cruz refused to sign the Certification of the election result for this senatorial district of Humacao until these errors are corrected and assured that he communicated the situation to both the new President of the Senate José Luis Dalmau and candidate Hill Roman, who are hoping that everything will be corrected before the start of the regular session in the Senate. “I cannot rule out that there are other errors in this district as in other seals in Puerto Rico. The manner and manner in which this general scrutiny was organized distanced itself from valuable verification mechanisms used in other events that would have avoided so many errors.” , concluded Cruz. The report is expected to be received by OSIPE in the coming days.