Tomorrow, Last Day To Renew Cedula For 2010 Presidential Elections
October 5th, 2009 | by admin |The official start of the 2010 presidential campaign begins in a couple of days, as candidates ready for the start of what could be an historic campaign ending with the first ever woman president. Costa Ricans are getting ready also, updating and obtaining their cedulas in time for the vote on February 7th.
The Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE) informs that they are processing up to 3.000 cedula applications daily to beat the cut off date for elections registration.
Francisco Zúñiga, head of the “departamento de cédulas”departamento de cédulas” says that many Costa Ricans are facing renewal of their cedula that issued by the new system in 1998 and are now expired.
The TSE reports that an average of 250 first time cedular applications are received daily, while another 175 submit a transfer of voting district.
The TSE is located diagonal to the Legislative building in downtwon San José and is open from 8am to 4pm weekdays.
Zúñiga explains that it takes the TSE some eight days to hand over the new cedula and that the average wait time to apply is now about 30 minutes.
Anyone who has not renewed their cedula by October 7 will not be allowed to vote come election day.
