Voter confidence in Puerto Rico plummets amid allegations by both parties of voter fraud in the Commonwealth’s March 18 primary elections, which prompted a first-ever primary ballot recount and a State Electoral Commission investigation. Fox News Latino reports: The bitter contest and recount has already dredged-up evidence of electoral practices that sparked the Electoral Commission investigation and may lead to charges of criminal wrongdoing. It laid bare a practice of “vaciado de listas,” where people were recorded as having voted that never went to the polls or were deceased. “The political parties themselves [NPP and PDP] have made sure throughout the years that this practice remained hidden,” Antonio Sagardia, ex Minister of Justice under Fortuño, said. “Now they have kicked the anthill and the ants are starting to bite.” Voter confidence has taken a nosedive on an island already highly suspect of the political system and players. In a recent poll in El Nuevo Día, the newspaper of record of Puerto Rico, 82 percent of respondents said they thought that the discrepancies and other irregularities were delinquent acts by both parties. More on the recount here.