The CEE rejects all bids for the new electronic vote-counting system

On August 17, 2026, Caribbean Business reports that the CEE rejected all bids for the new electronic vote-counting system. Jessika Padilla Rivera, according to the outlet, announces a blanket rejection and a new RFP looking toward 2028. The struck-down RFP carries the number CEE-2026-07. It is the same Monday Metro covers the start of the ordinary session: two floors of the Capitol, two genres, without mixing vote-counting bids with the inventory tax.

Rejected were ES&S, Liberty Vote USA, and Truenorth. The resolution was unanimous. The new RFP, the note says, goes out on Tuesday. The documents are at ceepur.org. A fourth house is not added, nor a bid amount. There is no price in the confirmed facts, no vote total, and no precinct count. There are three names, a unanimous resolution, and a cycle pointing to 2028.

Blanket rejection means, in this outlet, that none of the three was chosen. It does not mean 2028 already has a machine. The outlet places the new RFP looking toward that election. This magazine does not invent a primary calendar or a technical requirement from the bid package.

The Tuesday of the new RFP is the Tuesday of the note's week, according to Caribbean Business. That word is not turned into a calendar date the source did not write with a day. Anyone who wants the official notice has ceepur.org, which the outlet itself names, and Caribbean Business's URL at the foot.

The legislative session Metro covers that same August 17 — permits, inventory, tax reform — is another floor of the Capitol. The CEE does not enter that priorities list in this row's facts. Here the object is electronic vote counting, the three bids, and the unanimous rejection. It is not a preview of results. It is a note on an RFP that did not prosper.

Source: Caribbean Business. https://caribbean.business/state-elections-commission-rejects-bids-for-new-electronic-vote-counting-system/