The Dominican Republic is a unitary state with elected officials at the national and local levels.
The Dominican Republic has a multi-party system, The Constitution define how elections are held and the eligibility of voters.
The Dominican Republic use a mixed system composed of the three most common methods used worldwide.
Constitution, also, denied the vote to members of the Armed Forces and National Police, and ban all people who have lost or have suspended his citizen rights, like convicted criminals or accused of treason from voting for a fixed period of time or indefinitely.
The number of Dominican adults who will be eligible to vote in 2016 elections are projected to be 7.2 million.
Voter registration in the Dominican Republic is automatic and based on a database of the Civil Registry in charge of the JCE; resident foreigners possess a (Cédula de Identidad y Electoral) "Identity and Electoral Document" (The Dominican Republic ID National Card) which is unique for each individual and never re-used after a person's death.
All Dominicans and eligible foreigners are added automatically to the electoral roll of the first election year they are able to vote and placed on the "electoral circumscription" based on their last reported address with the correspondent Circumscription Office of Civil State.
The Senate has 32 members, elected for a four-year term in single-seat constituencies (1 from each province and the Distrito Nacional).