Radios report problems at some polling stations in Haitian election
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- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:02:59 -0700
Radios report problems at some polling stations in Haitian election
21 avril 2006
Electoral operations have been going on normally at the National School
of Sarasin where many people have gone to vote and citizens in
Lascahobas have voted peacefully, Port-au-Prince Radio Galaxie
correspondent Mirabeau Louis reported in Mirebalais at 1547 gmt.
However, he said the situation was different in the voting centre
located in the public high school of Lascahobas, where he explained that
there had been fights among partisans of opposing candidates and that
law and order forces had intervened to restore order.
Port-au-Prince Signal Radio correspondent Berthony Geneus, reporting
live from Martissant, Port-au-Prince at 1554 gmt, said people whose
names did not appear on the electoral lists called on Provisional
Electoral Council (CEP) officials to take an exceptional measure like
the one taken on 7 February in order to allow them to vote in today’s
elections. A CEP official who wished to remain anonymous proposed that
the names of those people be taken and that they be allowed to vote,
according to Geneus. "A solution formula has been found for the voting
centre of Fontamara where a CEP official told the officials of this
centre that they can allow voters whose names are not on the electoral
lists to vote," said Signal’s studio announcer.
Signal Radio correspondent Joachim Marcel reporting live from
Cap-Haitien at 1557 gmt reported a problem that had occurred at a
polling station in the city. A witness said a Struggling People’s
Organization (OPL) representative had prevented a citizen from voting
more than once. Marcel also reported voters as saying they wanted to
vote for change and were determined to vote for their candidates.
At 1602 gmt, a citizen interviewed at the Signal Radio studio said he
went to vote at Republic of Guatemala National School and was surprised
to learn that somebody had already voted using his name. He had not yet
voted, but he was not allowed to vote because his name had already been
checked off. Signal Radio correspondent Berg Dorelus reported that some
voters were surprised to find that they were prevented from voting under
the pretext that their names were not on the list even though they had
seen that their names were listed at the entrance to the polling
stations. He reported a conflict at Elie Blaise Private High School in
Carrefour where supporters of President-elect Preval were trying to
force voters to vote for certain people. This problem was solved after
security guards intervened.
At 1611 gmt, Signal Radio announcer Idson Saint-Fleur said his
colleagues Fort Edson Locandia Fenelon and Auplan Pierre-Jacques had
observed irregularities at the 2004 Building in Port-au-Prince where the
people of Cite Soleil have been assigned to vote. Pierre-Jacques said
some people voted several times because they either erased the ink from
their nails or they refused to let the polling station members put ink
on their nails. "There is a true disorder at the 2004 Building polling
station," he said, adding that many people from Cite Soleil who went to
this station to vote do not have National Identification Cards. Fenelon
explained that this voting centre is the one to which most UN
Stabilization Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, members have been assigned,
but despite their presence there is a great deal of disorder there. He
reported, for example, that when an election worker called the manager
of this polling station to report that a voter did not want his nail to
be inked, the manager told him not to worry because the concerned voter
is a well-known person in Cite Soleil. "There is really total disorder
at the 2004 Building polling station," Fenelon and Pierre-Jacques
concluded.
At 1622 gmt, Signal Radio correspondent Patrick Mackentosh reporting
live from Les Cayes said Jean Desir, vice-president of the Departmental
Electoral Office (BED) of the South, says that in many communes there
are mistakes in the names of the candidates. For example, in
Camp-Perrin, the candidates whose names appear on the ballot papers are
actually running in other communes. He explained that in Camp-Perrin
there will be new elections because the name of Delinx Pierre, a
candidate for deputy who had died and who had been replaced by his
sister, still appears on the ballot.
Signal Radio announced at 1626 gmt that former Prime Minister Jacques
Edouard Alexis, Prime Minister Latortue, and MINUSTAH Chief Juan Gabriel
Valdes have called on the people to go to vote today because parliament
is very important in a democratic system.
At 1637 gmt, Signal correspondent Charles Hubert Zamor, reporting live
from a voting centre located at the Sylvio Cator Stadium, said that in
the case of the Sylvio Cator Stadium voting centre there is a lack of
election materials.
At 1643 gmt, correspondent Jean-Claudy Saint-Cyr, reporting live from
the CEP premises, quoted statements made by Juan Gabriel Valdes who said
: "I believe that the country is moving forward in the process of
validating its democratic process... This is a process that takes time.
But it is clear that Haitian democracy is moving forward."
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