Haiti again postpones presidential vote results

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: AFP

AFP - Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced Saturday it has postponed until April 20 the release of presidential and legislative election results, the second such delay this week.

Originally due Saturday, the results were first pushed back to Monday and are now set to be released two days later, primarily over challenges to the results of legislative races in some parts of the country.

"Due to the high number of disputed ballots, the Provisional Electoral Council has been forced to postpone to Wednesday, April 20, 2011 the announcement of final election results," the CEP said in a statement.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. That election and the U.S.-run first round were SO CORRUPT!

SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of Haitians didn't even vote, because the majority party--Aristide's party--was banned from the ballot.

How the two candidates for president ended up in the final round was that the U.S. State Department brought in its own election monitoring team, consisting of 6 U.S., French and Canadian operatives, and one Jamaican--the U.S. and France being notorious for interfering in Haiti, and Canada's rightwing government being a U.S. toady--because no reputable election monitors would touch it--and they changed the outcome, putting this Martelly creature (mafia, ties to "Baby Doc") in the running and a Sorbonne-educated former First Lady whose platform was "capitalism with smile," and bumping out the existing government's candidate, because the President had gotten a bit uppity about Haitian sovereignty and invited Aristide back to Haiti.

The upshot of this is the candidates chosen by the U.S. split about 25% of Haiti's voters between them. Most people didn't vote. Neither candidate represented the people of Haiti. The vote was a farce.

Bribery and bullying are the name of this U.S. game. They are holding $9 billion in earthquake aid over the heads of Haiti's leaders and voters, and how this works is that most of the money will go to U.S. corporations--of the sort that take USAID million dollar grants for, say, helping poor farmers in Afghanistan, and HALF the money stays in Washington DC, to maintain luxury lobbying offices to prepare the next filthy contract. A quarter of the remainder will be used to set up lush offices in Haiti. And the rest will go to local operatives, thugs, mafia--whoever plays the U.S. "free trade for the rich" and Pentagon "forward operating locations" games. Meanwhile about a million Haitians are still living UNDER TARPS--not even in tents!--and cholera has broken out.

I'm talking CORRUPT.

[Odin2005]

2. The whole thing stinks.

The Hatian government has been an illegitimate fraud ever since the US ousted Aristide.