The Central Electoral Junta, the body in charge of organizing the 2000 presidential election, said that investigations have shown that only 17 equipment are missing and not the 37 that was reported in a CAPEL audit. CAPEL is a body of the Organization of American States that carried out an audit into the procedures and status of the organization of the elections. The JCE and Datocentro (the company that had the contract to deliver the machines) told the press that only 10 Hitachi cameras and seven datacard machines are missing. The other equipment is being repaired or was found at the JCE. More so, the JCE said that the security keys were counted and that it is not possible that the missing equipment could have been used to issue voting cards (cedulas) as denounced by lawyer Marino Vinicio Castillo. Datocentro has agreed to replace the missing equipment.
