The president of the National Scrutiny Board (JNE), Nivia Rossana Castrellón, in an interview with ANPanama explained the functions of this entity for the next elections on May 5, where the most important is to proclaim the next President of the Republic, and ruled out that fraud can take place.

He assured that due to the format in which the votes are counted in Panama, it is difficult for this situation to occur, because it is a reliable method, and recommended that if citizens have doubts, then they go see how the counting of the tables is done.

“In Panama, those rumors must be ruled out since in each of the 7,577 tables the candidates have the right to have representatives, where there is a president, a member, a secretary and a substitute,” Castrellón said.

He also mentioned that the scrutiny is public and that the citizenry can see it, he will also see a viewer that the Electoral Tribunal will have where the minutes will be able to see, where the citizenry can even have access to that material.

As for what technology they are going to use, he indicated that as always they will do everything manually since they receive everything on paper being a very simple closed system to which only the JNE has access and where the votes will be reflected in an accounting and a mathematics so simple that it can be carried with a parallel excel.