At 5:00 p.m. today, the count of early votes, absentee votes, at-home votes and ballots that the machines could not read was stopped.
The remaining votes will be counted "by regulatory provision" on Tuesday, November 12 , in an escrutinio (a formal examination and recount of votes), said Lillian Aponte Dones, electoral commissioner for Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana.
Although Jessika Padilla Rivera, president of the Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE), had said the count of those votes would continue past 5:00 p.m., the electoral commissioners stated at a news conference that doing so would go against the regulations agreed to by all parties.
What is an escrutinio?
It is the formal examination and recount of votes that is conducted, by law, to validate election results.
What will happen with the 10:00 p.m. preliminary result?
Aponte Dones said the 10:00 p.m. result that the CEE will release today will be partial, because it will not include the outstanding early, absentee, at-home and machine-unread ballots.
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