In today’s “Que se dice” (What’s being said) column, the writer brings up an interesting point following yesterday’s news that the Dominican Electoral Board (JCE) will be printing the voter registration rolls for next month’s elections in Haiti. The writer says that some suspicions have arisen regarding the request made by the Haitian government to use the JCE technicians and equipment to print the voter registration rolls. Those who question the request point out that the magistrates of the Electoral Board must tread very carefully in order to avoid what, at first glance, seems to be an innocent and altruistic collaboration, becoming a “dangerous contamination” with unforeseeable consequences, with the blessing and collaboration, in this case particularly suspicious, of the UN and the OAS. The writer says that chief electoral magistrate, Luis Arias, has taken the request to be a show of the confidence, the credibility and the maturity that the JCE has demonstrated, but, at the same time, in keeping with his reputation as a “slippery character” he has taken the precaution of warning that before undertaking the request there are certain questions that must be cleared up. Among these is the question as to just which conditions will be imposed upon the printing of the lists. Who can guarantee that these lists will not “contaminate” the Dominican electoral process that is to be held next year? The writer concludes by wishing for the answers to the points raised by magistrate Arias, because these questions and all the others that might arise, have to be well answered before saying “yes” to the request made by our neighbors to the west.