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| 1 |  | 2009-07-03: Recent Elections Will Plunge Country Into Worse Crisis by Ranmase interviewees |  |
| Political parties that ran share the blame for having agreed to participate in a process vitiated from the start. | Rating: 3 |
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| 2 |  | 2009-07-03: Electoral Commission Seeks to Shift Blame to Plateau Candidates by Provisional Electoral Council, on Radio Kiskeya | |
| CEP report on violence in Central Plateau recommmends dumping four thuggish candidates, but misses own responsibility for ever qualifying them against advice of human-rights organizations. | Rating: 5 |
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| 3 | | 2009-07-02: Deuxième tour des sénatoriales : le peuple a encore boudé le scrutin marqué par des actes de violence dans au moins deux départements by Jean-Monard Métellus, Info Haïti | |
| Le scrutin s’est déroulé dans une atmosphère d’indifférence de la population. Les élections risquent fort bien de faire l'objet d'une vaste contestation en raison des problèmes de légitimité et de représentativité qui frapperont les élus qui en sortiront. | Rating: 3 |
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| 4 |  | 2009-06-20: Haiti Democracy Project: Fraud Allegations, Illegalities Need to Be Addressed by Ivanley Noisette, Philadelphia Foreign Affairs Examiner |  |
| The Haiti Democracy Project and other groups have urged Haitian government officials not to hold elections until all fraud allegations and illegalities are addressed. | Rating: 3 |
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| 5 |  | 2009-06-17: Project Report Calls for Correction of April 19 Elections by Haiti Democracy Project | |
| The CEP bungled the election, failing to verify the returns, setting an election for a seat already held, barring a major party, and admitting criminals as candidates. Pdf file, 40 pages. | Rating: 5 |
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| 6 |  | 2009-06-17: Haiti Democracy Project Calls for Greater Accountability by Electoral Officials by Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald | |
| A Washington-based think tank and a former candidate for Haiti's presidency are separately calling for the postponement of Sunday's runoff elections. Report cites widespread irregularities and fraud in the first round of voting in Haiti's Senate elections | Rating: 5 |
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| 7 |  | 2009-06-17: Voters' ID Number Already Imprinted on List, Removing a Key Control by Charles Henry Baker, Respè Party | |
| Carte identification nationale already imprinted on the list removing a key control. Then electoral officials required voters to sign, also illegal and incapable of verifying ID. Facilitated massive ballot-box stuffing. | Rating: 3 |
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| 8 | | 2009-06-17: Petition to Senate Concerning Illegal Identification Procedure by Charles Henry Baker, Respè Party | |
| The CEP sent out a manual to the electoral workers stipulating the illegal identification procedure which opened the door to fraud by giving the falsifiers access to the ID numbers. | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 | | 2009-06-17: Letter to U.N. Mission by Charles Henry Baker, Respè Party | |
| Probably unwittingly, the U.N. mission gave its support to the first round which was held illegally. Now you must be ready to deal with a round in which the candidates have originated illegally. | Rating: 3 |
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| 10 |  | 2009-06-17: Department-by-Department Survey by 500 Observers by Catholic Bishops' Justice and Peace Commission |  |
| Rapò obsèvasyon eleksyon nan dyosèz ak depatman yo 19 avril 2009. June 5, 2009. | Rating: 3 |
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| 11 | | 2009-06-15: CEP Seen Admitting Violation of Law on First Round by Charles Henry Baker, Respè Party | |
| By agreeing to properly process voters' IDs in the second round, CEP admits it violated law in the first. The candidates so chosen are illegitimate. | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 |  | 2009-06-14: Dragging Out the Minimum-Wage Issue by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| Préval keeps issues like this percolating so as to appear indispensable to the internationals. Ironically, it's Senator Boulos, whom he unconstitutionally expelled from the senate, who has suggested different ways to manage it. | Rating: 5 |
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| 13 | | 2009-06-12: Denouncing Candidates' Violence Against Voters by Catholic Bishops' Justice and Peace Commission | |
| Even serving legislators threatened the voters. The CEP did not penalize them according to the law. Its supervisors in the voting centers did not even submit affidavits attesting to the violence. | Rating: 5 |
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| 14 | | 2009-06-07: Barred from Life Presidency, Préval Will Still Try to Fix the Second Round by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| Préval is going to rebel against the pressure the internationals put on him to hold elections he didn't want. That will be a considerable conflict of interest, for him to take the $12 million provided for elections and use it to abuse the citizenry. | Rating: 3 |
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| 15 | | 2009-06-04: Préval's Grab for Life Presidency Impeded by Elections by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| Bad as they were, the April elections by restoring senate to full complement make possible amendment of constitution rather than replacement, thus barring Préval from his coveted third term. | Rating: 3 |
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| 16 |  | 2009-06-04: Armed Candidates, Serving Officials and Bodyguards Carried Out Illegal Electioneering by Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains | |
| Executive had too much power in forming electoral commission. Too many criminals inscribed as candidates, and too many armed candidates invading voting centers on election day. Article 211 of electoral law should be applied. | Rating: 4 |
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| 17 | | 2009-05-22: Elections without Electors by Catholic Bishops' Justice and Peace Commission | |
| Law needs to be enforced against troublemakers who deny the citizens their vote. Haiti belongs to its citizens, not to the government or political parties. | Rating: 3 |
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| 18 |  | 2009-05-19: Aborting the Elections in the Central Plateau by L'Institut Mobile d'Education Démocratique | |
| Willot Joseph, running for a party reputedly close to the government, picked up his rifle and went on a violent ballot-box-stuffing rampage. He was quickly imitated by others. | Rating: 5 |
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| 19 |  | 2009-05-14: More Votes than Voters by Victor Jean Junior, Le Nouvelliste | |
| The CEP counts 13,476 votes from Milot although there are only 12,210 registered voters there. All votes purportedly for Moïse Jean-Charles, a close adviser to President Préval. | Rating: 5 |
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| 20 | | 2009-05-09: Exposing Massive Electoral Fraud in Milot by Robert Benodin, on Radio Classique Inter | |
| Robert Benodin strikes again! First to publicly denounce ballot-box stuffing in Milot, where Préval crony Moïse Jean-Charles claimed more votes than there were voters. Outcry begun by Benodin with this article finally forced CEP to disallow these votes. | Rating: 5 |
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