Honduran Electoral Council denounces theft of technology in elections

Tegucigalpa, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) The National Electoral Council (CNE) on Thursday reported the loss of 150 technological packages with computers, fingerprint readers, multi-functional printers, power generators and solar plants, used during the latest elections in Honduras.

December 16, 2021
12:34

CNE President Kelvin Aguirre confirmed that the equipment was additional to packages installed in all 5,735 voting centers in order to guarantee the Results Transmission System at presidential level.

The judge blamed the electoral guards and technical operators who had been proposed by majority parties within the Voting Receiving Boards (JRV), and mentioned other minor crimes such as theft of books and notebooks in schools operating as voting centers.

The CNE will begin the corresponding investigations to identify those responsible for the crime, refer them to the Public Ministry and charge them with theft during the exercise of voting whose costs went over 180 million dollars, according to the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP).

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