Complaints of incompetence and allegations of bias have arisen in the wake of the publication of the results of last months voter registration test, which were reported yesterday. http://www.dr1.com/daily/news040500.shtml PRSC spokesman Humberto Salazar charged Central Elections Board (JCE) president Ramon Morel Cerda has tried to "minimize the grave problems" detected in the master voter lists. Salazar, whose partys presidential candidate is 94-year old Joaquin Balaguer, implied that Morel Cerda favors the party of PRD candidate Hipolito Mejia, whom he quoted as saying "everything in the Elections Board is fine," and pointed out that Board members were appointed by the PRD-dominated senate. Danilo Medina, candidate of the ruling PLD party, expressed concern that time to rectify voter list discrepancies is running out. A "great quantity" of new voters have been unable to obtain an identity card (cedula) which is the basic document needed to establish voter identification. Echoing Medina, Salazar noted that "up to one million will not have the right to vote" because their names dont appear in the list of registrants, and pointed out that the presidential elections of 1996 and the congressional elections of 1998 were held without any such problems. Both PRSC and the PLD continue to insist, and the JCE continues to resist, that voters who have not been issued new cedulas be allowed to vote with the older versions, now almost completely phased out. In a related development, the entire provincial elections board of Monsenor Nouel Province, has resigned due to irregularities during the voter registration test. Gilberto de la Rosa, President, Anna Maria Abreu, delegate, and alternates Juan Amadis, Casimiro Vasquez, Salustina Reyes, Nicomedes Paulino, and Randolfo Nunez sent formal resignation letters to JCE president Cerda, charging that 124 provincial voting lists "went missing and were later discovered," causing the voter test to be prolonged by 24 hours. All have served in their positions for a long time, some up to 25 years. The Central Elections Board (JCE) took out a self-congratulatory full-page ad in todays papers to proclaim the "success" of its voter test. In addition, it conducted a closed door evaluative session with representatives of all political parties and technical staff, to work out "consensus" regarding solutions to the problems detected.