It is an election year in several countries in the region and 2020 for the Dominican Republic represents the period in which municipal mayors and a new president will be elected. The first had a specific date of February 16, for which the JCE (Central Electoral Board) assigned 16,405 electronic voting teams (called “automated” in that country) to the 18 demarcations planned for use (in other less popular areas, the expected vote was the manual); at the same time that members of the OAS (Organization of American States) and the IFES (International Foundation for Electoral Systems) had come to the country to check that everything went smoothly. For both the first and the primary votes, the amount invested reported by the JCE was US$ 18.6 million.