The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Dr. Manuel Morel Cerda said they are considering contracting the services of Unisys International, an affiliate of Datocentro, the Dominican informatics company that has the contract to establish the database and issue the new voting and identification cards. The process has experimented technical difficulties, and Dr. Morel says Unisys has proposed solutions. These will entail additional disbursements by the government, but Dr. Morel has explained that it would be more expensive to abort the project with Datocentro as the government has already advanced millions. According to a report in Hoy, Unisys International would take over the issuing of the voting and identification cards. Technical difficulties have resulted in the project being far behind schedule. Only 1,200,000 of 4,500,000 voting cards have been issued. The voting card is needed for the presidential elections that will be held 16 May 2000.
