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Santo Domingo.- Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Julio Cesar Castaños said Tuesday the elections court isn’t aware that electoral results have been intercepted online, as all measures will be taken to prevent intrusions in the data transmission system. "I don’t have any knowledge of results has been intervened by hackers, but all measures taken in that regard are good."

As to reports of a request for services by specialists to protect from hackers and guarantee the transmission of the polls’ results on May 16, the JCE president said it’s "well-meaning." "The Board has guarantees that its networks cannot be violated, the guarantee is from the traditional provider (CODETEL) and there have never been any problems."

In that regard, JCE Administrative Chamber president Robert Rosario said "never had the JCE been so sure regarding the part which has to do with technology and the results," adding that "the data will be transferred in the same manner it was done in the 2004 and 2006 elections, the difference is that instead of doing it from the Board it will be done from the voting precincts."

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Written by: rossbuildersinc, 29 Apr 2008 10:45 PM
From: United States
I'm speechless...........
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Written by: RPICHARDO, 30 Apr 2008 12:58 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Well, very simply they locked the routers that will patch the packets from the polling places to the JCE main frame... I feel sorry for all Codetel's broadband clients on the 16th... The speed on their PCs will be just like using a dial-up, since most point main routers will be out of the link until after all electoral data gets transmitted...

I think that saying Hack-proof is not the real way to put it, but bullet-proof safe can be more the words to call it. You can't hack something that won't even show up in any network.

Codetel over billing themselves?
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Written by: mito125, 30 Apr 2008 9:02 AM
From: Dominican Republic
RPICHARDO, then we may not notice too much difference, ADSL/Flash is already on it's knees, at least in our area...
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Written by: Poeta25, 30 Apr 2008 1:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Nothing is bullet proof or hack proof, if it's man made, it can be modified.

Why even use an untested election balloting scanner on one of the most important elections? why not have used these scanners for less important elections? Untested machines reminds me of Florida in 2000, big trouble. Not only that, they don't have all the machines yet, they are express shipping them, about 700 or so, days before, how can the JCE guarantee its not been tampered with?

But then again, the JCE is in Leonel's back pocket. lol
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