Following heightened political campaigning up to yesterday, the island's three main political parties will be looking to gear up their election machinery today to be fully effective for tomorrow's polls.

Spokesmen for the parties said they intended to adhere to the requirement that mass campaigning should now end. However, the PNP has indicated that it will be in full swing today with its media advertising campaign.

Also, the party leaders are scheduled to attend a meeting at 2:30 p.m., to be convened by the Political Ombudsman, and involving representatives of both local and international observer teams. There, the leaders are expected to re-affirm their commitment to free and fair elections.

According to the People's National Party's (PNP) communications director, Ralston Smith, the PNP will be conducting planning sessions for voting day activities at both the constituency and national levels. This, he said, is to rid its system of potential hitches on election day.

Similarly, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) deputy chairman, Ryan Peralto, said his party would use today to do organisational work. "We will be analysing and evaluating the effect of the campaign tours, to see where we need to take particular notice with respect to monitoring and deploying resources, to ensure that each candidate does his best," Mr. Peralto told The Gleaner.

Dicky Crawford, field co-ordinator for the National Democratic Movement (NDM), said his party's candidates will be conducting a meeting in each constituency, to gear up its election day workers for the real thing tomorrow. In addition to indoor and outdoor agents, he said, his party also plans to put in place supervisors to monitor clustered polling stations.

The police and military, for their part, have both reported full readiness for tomorrow's activities. Police Commissioner Francis Forbes said police personnel will be deployed for election duties from tonight and extra security will be in place after the closing of polls tomorrow.

He said his team will be aided by the Police National Computer Centre, to monitor the activities of members of the force.

Violence

Meanwhile, all three parties are crying foul over electoral matters. A release from PNP headquarters expressed concern about acts of violence alleged perpetrated against PNP supporters by JLP elements since Monday.

The PNP pointed to the shooting death of an area leader on Woodpecker Avenue in St. Andrew; the killing of two other men in the "Bell Rock" area of West Central St. Andrew, and allegations that persons from a JLP motorcade shot up the campaign office of Horace Clarke, PNP candidate for Central St. Mary, yesterday morning. These were listed among other alleged JLP misdemeanours over the period.

A report from the NDM said PNP candidate for South East St. Andrew, Easton Douglas has been furnished with an alphabetical voters' list, while his opponents' lists were different. This, Mr. Peter Townsend, the NDM candidate described as unfair and undemocratic and demanded that he and other candidates in the constituency be provided with alphabetical lists.

For its part, the JLP has written to the Electoral Office advising that it has been informed that a number of returning officers have been changing voting locations within polling divisions. The party called for the practice to be halted and requested that all voting should take place at the previously agreed locations.