Santo Domingo.- The Electoral Board (JCE) yesterday affirmed that the post electoral process is on schedule and called on the candidates to Deputy seats not to despair or pay heed to untimely declarations because it only issues official results.

It asked the political parties not to call on their rank-and-file to the streets, not to stage celebrations or self-proclaim winners, mainly in localities where the vote count has very close margin.

JCE judge Jose Angel Aquino announced the data will be processed during the entire week to determine the preferential votes cast for each deputy candidate, but admitted it will take time. “It’s a slow process, those affidavits must be validated, there’s a miscount in the preferential vote.”

“There’s no truth in any of the proclamation of winners, it may or may not be, because there’s still no definitive results,” Aquino said, adding that in many cases the posts are being defined by just a few votes. “In the town Paraiso (southwest) as few as three votes will decide the race for mayor.”