The Attorney General’s Office warned the electoral authorities that the results of the international authorship that they are going to contract for the presidential elections must be different from those produced by the authorship of the company already contracted Jahv Macgrecor SA
Through a letter sent to Sabrina Cajiao, administrative and financial manager of the Registrar’s Officethe Attorney said that the mayor and the contractual object is different from what is already in place in order to compare the results and have more precise information about the presidential elections.
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“That in the pre-contractual and contractual documents of the international audit to be contracted, take into account that the scope and object of international autonomy differs substantially with the audit contracted with Jahv Macgrecor SA, through the contract for the provision of services 088 of 2021”, reads in the letter signed by Gabriel del Toro, first attorney delegate for Preventive Surveillance.
From the Registry, they explained to RCN World that precisely the audits are different. According to them, Jahv Macgrecor SA will be in charge of evaluating and monitoring the entire logistics process and the electoral system in general; while international authorship will be punctually to the pre-count software which is used after the polls close to count the votes.
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Regarding this international contracting, the president of the National Electoral Council, César Abreu, denied that the Costa Rican company Datasys had been hired and revealed that days before the elections the company in charge of doing it has not been chosen.
“I allow myself to inform public opinion that to date an international audit has not been selected or contracted for the 2022 elections, as has been published in different media outlets and as reported through social networks,” Abreu said. .
