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Junta Central Electoral JCE | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | April 12, 1923 |
Headquarters | Flag Square, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Motto | Committed to the truth (Comprometidos con la verdad) |
Employees | 7.400 (2022) |
Annual budget | RD$ 5,511,291,957 (2022) |
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The Central Electoral Board (Spanish: Junta Central Electoral, JCE) of the Dominican Republic is a special body of the government of the Dominican Republic responsible for ensuring a democratic and impartial electoral process, and also administer the civil registry, the marital status of all Dominican citizens. It was created in the year 1923 as part of the negotiations to end the first US intervention, and currently its functions are to organize the presidential, congress and of overseas deputies held on the third Sunday of May of each leap year, and municipal elections held on the third Sunday of February of each leap year.[1]