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Ramon Benito de la Rosa y Carpio with JCE president Julio Cesar Castaños yesterday. Photo elnuevodiario.com.do.
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SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Episcopate Conference president  Ramon Benito  de la Rosa y Carpio said the use of scanners to transmit the voting results on May 16 doesn’t endanger the reliability of the elections’ final results.

De la Rosa, Bishop of the Santiago Diocese, said it’s a new technology which serves to expedite the transmission of data. "Scanners are a technology for the rapidity, but the scanners aren’t what determines and decides what a voting is, because it’s the affidavits what are in the final count.

Scanners is a technology for rapidity, it is not to decide" de la Rosa said.

The two major opposition parties have asked the Central Electoral Board to discard the use of the scanners in the next elections, because in their view they could be remotely “manipulated.”

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Written by: gouletcolonial, 8 May 2008 9:04 AM
From: Canada
there is more to this than meets the eye
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Written by: josean, 8 May 2008 11:52 AM
From: United States
Another fine example of the separation of Church and State!
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Written by: hectorvargas, 8 May 2008 9:30 PM
From: United States
Is always the same thing with politicians, looking for some advantage like going to the supermarket, here scan it and scan it again oh I did'nt mean to scan it twice. The pols are always being modified cause of the previous election. They just can trust one another so the church has to step in and place their two cents. The others are discussing it privately, lets keep the boy in power he does more for us. Don't you love Dominican politics, they have mature a great deal and expect to have a quiet civilized election. After everything is said and done, the winner will still negotiated with the loser under closed door. The loser can then modified the scanners for the next Presidential election and used some other technological advances. How much money did they invested on this so called scanners? Will there be another Cedula (Dominicans I.D. ) with a code bar to scan. The last one had a big bar code and something that look like a bar code under that. Do it like the new U.S.Visa.
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Written by: DennisC, 11 May 2008 3:02 PM
From: United States
This is one of the reasons why I have never been a church man,
never believed I had to tell another man like me the secret of my existance seeking repentance,
why should I?,
who are them but men like us?

Perhaps taking that side of men and not God's priest, is why they mettle in the rational of politics,
which make them just like any of us, the moment they abandon their real job, they all are subjected to all our criticism to believe their path in politics is not what is our best proposition.
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