In statements to Diario El Salvador, the magistrate pointed out that it will be less than a month before the diaspora with a Unique Identity Document (DUI) residing abroad begins to vote remotely via Internet.

The latest updates from the TSE register an average of 750,000 citizens eligible to vote, he added.

Wellman praised the mechanism despite several questionings in the past weeks because it was not tested nor audited by the authorities, and claims that it could be the target of attacks and that it could be a fraud.

Salvadorans residing abroad who have a DUI with an address abroad will be able to vote from anywhere in the world via the Internet and will have 30 days, from January 6 to February 4, 2024, to do so, Wellman explained.

The judge remarked that there is a lot of distrust on the part of the political parties, but that is traditional in Latin America, the political parties distrust everything, they do not distrust a bank transfer, but they do distrust a vote; then, all that is part of the political-partisan custom, he said.

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