El Caribe reports that of the six polling companies, three foreign and three local, the Gallup organization was the closest to predicting the percentages won by each party, according to the last JCE bulletin. In terms of absolute values, the cross-checking of the final numbers contained in JCE Bulletin No. 10 with the last polling figures from each polling group, Gallup was off by 8.91, the Centro Economico del Cibao was off by 9.30, Penn and Schoen by 10.89, Hamilton by 15.11, Ana Maria Acevedo by 21.01 and Cabrera and Associates by 22.71.