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The Super PAC spent $2.3 million primarily on services provided by DEP Publicidad, an advertising agency exclusively used for business with this corporate committee. However, the corporation behind the advertising strategy is Guardarraya Communications, a company founded by the creator of ARCO Publicidad.

After the CEE allowed ES&S representatives to participate as observers during the primaries, the company presented a $56 million bid to sell ballot-counting machines.

Despite the judicial and political disputes that the 2020 Electoral Code would go through profound amendments, the current electoral cycle began with the statute practically intact due to the lack of leadership and the internal struggles within the Partido Popular Democrático (Popular Democratic Party) as well as the Partido Nuevo Progresista´s (New Progressive Party) reluctance to scale back its control over the State Elections Commission (CEE, in Spanish).

Since the new law came into effect, the CEE’s president practices the highest executive and administrative authority at the agency.