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By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Irregularities in Haiti's elections seem "more serious than initially thought," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, urging candidates and their supporters to respect the law and avoid...
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Fri Dec 3, 2010 4:13pm EST
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Irregularities in Haiti's elections seem "more serious than initially thought," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, urging candidates and their supporters to respect the law and avoid violence.
Ban briefed the U.N. General Assembly in New York on the situation in Haiti, where several days of protests and unrest have followed confused presidential and legislative elections held last Sunday during a cholera epidemic.
"Whatever the complaints or reservations about the process, I urge all political actors to refrain from violence and to start discussions immediately to find a Haitian solution to these problems -- before a serious crisis develops," Ban said.
Preliminary election results are due to be announced on Tuesday, which the international community hopes can produce a stable, legitimate government to lead the recovery of the poor Caribbean country from a devastating January 12 earthquake.
The presidential contest, which featured 18 candidates, is expected to go to a runoff, probably on January 16.
Haitian electoral authorities met in Port-au-Prince with the candidates, a big group of whom -- excluding the front-runners identified by opinion polls -- have called for annulment of the elections.
This group of candidates also denounced "massive fraud," an allegation criticized by the world body and election monitors.
While acknowledging a range of voting problems, Provisional Electoral Council Director General Pierre-Louis Opont said the vast majority of voters were able to cast their ballots.
"The council has decided to move on with the process," he said, adding that would include a second round as required.
Ban said, "While some violence and disruptions on election day are not exceptional in Haiti, the irregularities now seem more serious than initially thought."
Organization of American States/Caribbean Community election observers said they detected a number of irregularities, some serious, in the vote but declared they did not necessarily invalidate the process.
Amid scenes of confusion on Sunday in the capital, many frustrated voters were unable to find the polling stations where they were registered, while a number of stations opened late or lacked the necessary electoral materials or staff.
Up to three people were killed in electoral violence, while at least one polling station was trashed by protesters.
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The U.N. chief urged the candidates, their supporters and all others involved in the elections to respect the law. There is a more than 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti.
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kingsty wrote:
Now they admit it. I was in Haiti election day and all the polling stations we vistied showed the election was a complete sham. Monitors sitting outside the count scared to leave their cars. Dead people voted but those who were alive had to spend hours trying to locate their name in places they had voted several times before. Oh and Children voted in lots of places which was nice to see but probably illegal. Nice to see a lot of ballots were already checked with Celestin just to help voters out.
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