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Presidential Candidate Martelly and US Embassy Voice Concerns About Vote Tampering in Haiti

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None of us have access to the ballots. What we do know is that the government of the United States has raised a gigantic red flag that now covers the results in doubt, the official numbers are contrary to all estimates, and many, many Haitians were disenfranchised to begin with.

Camp Corail in November 2010 by G. Nienaber (copyright waved)

A case in point is the Government run IDP camp of Corail, which has 5,000 residents; only 39 were allowed to vote. We have visited Corail on many occasions and the people we spoke with there are very unhappy with the Preval government.

An excellent overview of the current situation by Associated Press reporters on the ground can be seen here.

Manigat, a 70-year-old law professor, is the wife of former Haitian President Leslie Manigat. Celestin, an unknown before the election, is the candidate of Preval's Unity party.

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