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(CNN Spanish) - The Organization of American States (OAS) concluded that the cause of the suspended municipal elections of February 16 in the Dominican Republic was the “mismanagement” of the computer equipment of the Electoral Board that produced the inefficient design of the automated voting software.
The OAS audit team states that "it found no evidence of external attacks, sabotage, or attempted fraud in the failed elections."
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According to the 45-page document delivered this Tuesday to the Central Electoral Board, the OAS determined that the mismanagement given by the Information Technology Directorate adds “to not having had tools to detect or prevent the failure and not being able to mitigate weather".
The OAS report details 21 findings from its audit of automated voting.
The municipal elections were suspended just four hours after the electoral body began, as the automated vote that would be implemented in 62% of the electoral colleges failed.
This suspension sparked a wave of protests in the country for several weeks.
This past March 15, the Dominican Republic returned to the polls in an extraordinary call where manual voting was used.
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