Nicaragua, Poor Attendance to Electoral Revision
Without noticing the official results of the electoral verification carried out the last two weekends in Nicaragua, the generalized opinion Monday is that attendance of voters was poor.

Preliminary data estimate that less than 35 percent out of the over three million Nicaraguans older than 16 years old verified if their personal data appear correctly reflected on the electoral roll, differently from the number of 53 percent expected by authorities.

However, people´s response was doubled in relation to the very first weekend when reports revealed an attendance of less than 15 percent, said Roberto Rivas, president of the Electoral Supreme Council.

The objective is to purge the electoral roll of deceased people, possible changes of address, mistakes and to cover inclusions of those reaching 16 years old for coming elections on November 5.

Rivas attributed the poor attendance to the people's confidence on their inclusion in the lists and to that Nicaraguans, he said, "leave everything for the end".

Nicaraguans will vote the future President of the nation, the deputy President, the 90 deputies to the National Assembly and the country's 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament.