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OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza "asked (Preval) to delay announcing election results until an international panel of experts can review the vote, officials said Saturday." However, "the panel of up to five electoral, legal and information-technology experts has not even been formed, and waiting for its review could drag into the new year....Preval's office could not be reached for comment...."
On December 20, Al Jazeera headlined, "Haiti poll results delay rued," saying:
"The proposed delay....has been met with fierce criticism from some of the candidates. (Haiti's electoral commission) plans a recount of tally sheets in the presence of the three main candidates, although" first place winner Mirlande Manigat and third place one Marcel Martelly won't participate.
Final results were due out December 20. Most candidates, including Martelly, want the fraudulent election re-held with all 19 candidates participating. Washington, Preval and the OAS may be delaying to "run out the clock," defuse public anger, and show only token recount changes to legitimize a bogus process.
Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) said disputed results will be rapidly reviewed. Rapidity is now delay. In addition, disgruntled candidates got until December 15 to appeal. Verification of preliminary results hasn't happened. On December 14, the OAS/CARICOM (MOEC) Joint Electoral Observation Mission learned that establishing the commission was postponed.
On December 19, a CEP statement said:
"Until the end of the litigation stage of the electoral process, the arrival and the completion of the work of an expert mission to the OAS....the PRC has decided to postpone the publication of final results of the first round. No new date (was) specified. However, depending on what we have learned, Opont Pierre Louis, the Director General of the PRC, reportedly (said) 'we gather on (December 20) to fix a new date. A date that is safe and good for the country.' "
Perhaps so for its oligarchy, Obama officials and complicit OAS/UN functionaries. Not at all for ordinary Haitians to be exploited, left out, betrayed, and bludgeoned if they complain.
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