Elections
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This page has elections stuff pre-May 21, 2000. Click on button for:
Secret report of the presidential commission on the disputed 1997 elections. A CIP-web-page exclusive.

Choose French or English: A little background:

(Also known as C.P.A. or Lissade Commission report. Written in 1998, published in 1999.)

State Department human rights report for 1999 notes impact of CIP's publication of the above report. Says after publication the CEP inaugurated photo IDs, poll watchers and election-night-reporting policy to prevent similar fraud.
Publish the secret election report! A call from civil society in 1999.
Loi Electoral, 15 juillet 1999, with new hypertext table of contents.
Jean Dominique's last broadcast. March 27, 2000.
Prevent a Lavalas Electoral Coup d'Etat. Micha Gaillard. May 8, 2000.
Mission statement of COHADEM, Collective for a Democratic and Modern Haiti. May 4, 2000.
Elections Decisives pour Haiti. Gérard Pierre-Charles, 27 avril 2000.
Terrorism Threatens Elections. A situationer by Hans Tippenhauer of Group Croissance published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 20, 2000.

ECOSOF: Ce que l'Etude a Revele. March 3, 2000. What the ECOSOF poll reveals:

IFES election bulletin, February 10, 2000.
OPL: La conjoncture politico-electorale en Haiti. Janvier 2000. The political and electoral line-up as seen by the Organization of the People in Struggle (OPL).
Inscriptions d'Électeurs Compromises dans Plusieurs Communes. SICRAD, January 24, 2000. Voter Registration Snagged in Many Localities.
OPL: Projet politique, janvier 2000. Full text. OPL political program: new section translated.
Candidates rush to register before deadline. Inscription des candidats: une autre étape franchie dans le processus électoral. SICRAD, December 13, 1999.

Élections: Encore peu d'inscrits. Candidate registration lags. December 6, 1999. -- SICRAD.

First rift in election commission. Other election news. --SICRAD reports, November 28, 1999.
Campagne d'Éducation Civique Mise En Route. Election commission launches get-out-the-vote campaign despite bottle-throwing incident. November 1, 1999.
Aristiders throw bottles of urine at election commission.
MICIVIH quarterly report.
Conjoncture Electorale Tendue: Forced resignation of Robert Manuel after President Preval's trip to Washington--SICRAD. October 11, 1999.
CEP postpones elections until March 19, 2000. News: News and analysis:
Pour un Observatoire électoral national autonome de l'étranger, par Micha Gaillard. 19 septembre 1999.
La strategie de deux fers au feux de Lavalas. Micha Gaillard. 30 aout 99.
Proposition pour de vraies elections. Gerard Pierre-Charles. Juin 99.
Des analphabetes devenus des betes sauvages, un commentaire enflammé par Louis-Jean Beaugé.
A president who can't make up his mind. By Micha Gaillard. 10 juillet.
Election commission annuls April, 1997 elections. June 11, 1999.
Les aspects legaux-constitutionnels de l'annulation . Par Anne-Edline Francois. 2 juin 99
Practice the art of compromise. By Ericq Pierre. Part 1: Part 2:
Perspective on elections in Haiti. Prof. Henry F. Carey.
A cautionary note. National Coalition for Haitian Rights. April 12.

 

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