The ruling party, Partido de la Liberación Dominicana requested in a letter sent to the Junta Central Electoral, the government body in charge of organizing the presidential election, that that electoral court invite the Organization of American States, and its affiliate organization Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral (CAPEL), the Carter Center and other international organizations to come now to observe preparatory procedures for the 2000 election. The PLD denounced that there are "serious managerial problems and a showing of incapability by technicians employed in the computer center" and alerted that the Junta dedicate its attention to these. The JCE president, Ramón Morel Cerda has rejected the suggestion that electoral observers come now, even if the PLD government is willing to pick up the bill. The Junta Central Electoral, on its part, announced yesterday that it accepted the resignation of four technicians employed in its computer center. Morel Cerda did not disclose the reasons for the resignations to journalists. He just would volunteer that the technicians had sent long letters of resignation.
