The Junta Central Electoral, the government body in charge of organizing elections, said that a new host computer is now in operation. The new computer, facilitated on loan by Unisys International, has capacity to issue 30,000-40,000 voting cards a day. The JCE’s previous computer had capacity for 6,000 a day. The JCE is way behind its schedule for issuing the voting cards, and hopes to catch up in time for the May 2000 presidential election. The JCE has still to issue about 4.5 million voting cards, to replace previous cards, by December. The JCE says it is issuing cards at about more than 15,000 a day.
