As the Central Electoral Board (JCE) enters the last fortnight of preparation for the 2004 presidential elections, one of the biggest tasks remaining is locating people who were ?misplaced? over the past few years. The newspaper El Caribe reported that this year?s election is looking at a possible 5,020,000 voters who will have 12,492 poling stations all around the country. According to the chronogram posted by the JCE, as of Saturday, 1 May, the board was supposed to have chosen the personnel that will be working the polling stations. Over 61,000 have been recruited to make the elections happen. As was reported in DR1 News last week, the JCE is still facing difficulties with the local election boards accepting the personnel that have been trained by the different civic groups such as ?Participacion Ciudadana?. The personnel that will service the polling stations should have their credentials by this coming Saturday. By 7 May the specialized data processing centers will stop receiving requests for voter registration and changes of personal information previous to the elections. According to the Electoral Law, by the 11 May, the JCE will publish in several newspapers, in full color, a facsimile of the official ballot. The presidents and secretaries of the polling stations have until 14 May to pick up the voting material. The big headache is to find the displaced voters that still do not have their new voter registration care (Cedula). In February, the group numbered 800,000. Letters dated 4 March are arriving at homes to tell the recipients that their polling stations has been changed. The recipient is advised that a new ?cedula? will be issued upon presentation of the letter and the old ?cedula?. Finally, the indelible ink used to identify voters has begun to arrive from Mexico. The first 190 jugs of ink arrived along with 300,000 sheets of plastic that will be used to cover each polling station?s final count. The JCE says that by 18 May the final computations will be finished and between the 20th and the 27th of May, the electoral board will hear any problems, take the necessary decision and hear any appeals. Preliminary results have been promised for the evening of 16 May, four hours after the vote close at 6 pm.