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Haiti Election Votes Count - Massive Irregularities Detected

Massive irregularities have been detected in the recent Haiti presidential election vote count. A new report suggests that about 156,000 votes were not counted in the previous tallies and that the Haiti election results should not be salvaged.

Who are these votes in favor of?

After all... Michel Martelly lost to Jude Celestin by ONLY 6,845 votes and 156,000 votes were not counted?

This report came from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).

Mark Weisbrot, co-author of the report, says...

"The amount of votes not counted or counted wrong in this election is huge - much larger than has been reported by either the Organization of American States or the Provisional Electoral Council...

...I don't see how any professional observers could legitimately certify this election result..."

QUESTION

A twelve-member panel from the Organization of American States (OEA/OAS) is currently in Haiti reviewing the presidential elections vote count...

What do you think their final answer will be?

Will there be a round 2?

Will it be Manigat-Celestin, Manigat-Martelly, or Celestin-Martelly?

Or will they just have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN?

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Roger Delice says...

definitely it should be magnigat/ mattelly
cause they were the majority on the election but the president on place is trying very hard to elect his son in

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Venicia Dean says...

why is this happening what the hell is going on over there i am haitian this is not right 3oo, ooo people died 10 months ago do these people not

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Ben says...

What's the surprise?

Everyone knew from the beginning that the election was a bluff.

A better question would be "WHY DIDN'T THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OVERSEES THE ELECTION PROCESS FROM THE BEGINNING?" They knew it was going to be a mess and they let it happened.

I am curious to know what they and the Preval administration will come up

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Ben says...

What's the surprise?

Everyone knew from the beginning that the election was a bluff.

A better question would be "WHY DIDN'T THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OVERSEES THE ELECTION PROCESS FROM THE BEGINNING?" They knew it was going to be a mess and they let it happened.

I am curious to know what they and the Preval administration will come up

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Ronald Altieri says...

It would be nice to have the whole article to readm as opposed to just excerpts of it, but we understand the issue with that.

Anyway! Everyone already knew of the massive irregularities, Everyone already knew that the numbers found will border abstrations of substraction, addition or even multiplication.

But given the questions of:

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