How the Fraud Was Done

Revised and updated December 17, 2010

Below the Haiti Democracy Project's electoral mission presents images showing how a ruling-party candidate running for the position of deputy in the lower house falsely inflated his total.

On the left are photos of carbon copies of the official returns of the polling place. On the right are the results posted by the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), which may also be viewed on its website.

 

Note that the local electoral officials added either 100 or 200 votes to the ruling-party candidate's total on each return. This addition may be seen on the first line of the result posted by the Provisional Electoral Council.

Note also that in many cases the padding increases the number of votes well beyond the number of valid ballots ("Total Bilten Ki Bon") reported on the CEP's results form, thus the result is internally inconsistent. The return should have been set aside by the Tabulation Center.

Most of the electoral officials in Haiti are adherents of the ruling Unité Party.

Effect of fraud on race

Data: Table 1

 

Carbon copy of polling place official return
Fraudulent result accepted and posted by Provisional Electoral Council

 

 

Table 1

PV image?
BV
Valid
Stated
False
Opponent
Centre de Vote Ecole Mixte de Ouanaminthe
True 2 11 111 100 73
T 3 18 118 100 77
T 12 13 113 100 66
  21 33 133 100 61
T 25 15 115 100 76
T 32 30 130 100 67
T 34 11 111 100 79
T 35 17 117 100 78
T 36 14 114 100 80
T 37 10 110 100 71
  39 4 204 200 36
T 40 10 100 90 40
  41 12 212 200 42
Centre de Vote Georges Muller
T 1 19 219 200 71
  3 22 222 200 75
  5 12 212 200 68
  6 45 250 205 81
  7 17 217 200 69
T 9 14 214 200 93
  10 19 219 200 67
T 12 17 217 200 82
  13 23 223 200 72
T 14 20 220 200 60
  16 13 213 200 76
  17 10 210 200 74
T 18 18 70 52 60
  20 15 215 200 66
Centre de Vote Laurier
T 3 29 100 71 45
Centre de Vote Ali
  4 23 223 200 79
Totals   316 3,244 2,928 1,138

Abbreviations:

PV Procès verbal | BV Bureau de vote | T True

Data:

For PV = True: Image

For no notation: Candidate's challenge data