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"....if the results are not considered valid, this already quake-battered country could plunge even deeper into crisis....Amid accusations that widespread fraud was engineered by (Preval's INITE) coalition, diplomats are scrambling to prevent major violence that could cause Haiti to lose billions in reconstruction aid."
Whatever happens, concerns are '"that Haiti's next president could lack legitimacy...." Miami Herald staff found numerous "elections failings, which began well before polls opened...." Among them:
-- "many people could not get through to a call center to learn their polling site;"
-- "the Office of National Identification ignored OAS requests to use text messaging to nofify 416,631 people that their new or replaced voter (ID) cards were ready;"
-- residents with ID cards were told they were invalid;
-- others found no address listed for their assigned voting center;
-- the January earthquake destroyed nearly half of 1,500 sites;
-- people staffing them were functionally illiterate or instructed to tell voters they were ineligible;
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