More Evidence of Election Fraud in Haiti
Smashed Ballot Boxes Found in Haiti Dump.
The UN spokesman David Wimhurst has been saying there was no evidence of fraud. Astonishingly, we now have a complete contradiction that undercuts the UN's credibility:
This is a much different pictuire than the one portrayed in the American media of a mostly peaceful election.
Associated Press reporters saw hundreds of empty ballot boxes, at least one vote tally sheet and several empty bags — numbered and signed by the heads of polling stations — strewn across the fly-infested dump five miles north of Port-au-Prince.
The UN spokesman David Wimhurst has been saying there was no evidence of fraud. Astonishingly, we now have a complete contradiction that undercuts the UN's credibility:
Wimhurst said the ballots could have come from any of nine polling stations across the country that were ransacked on election day, forcing officials to throw out up to 35,000 votes. At least one voting center was destroyed by people tired of waiting in line, while others were destroyed by political factions, he said.
This is a much different pictuire than the one portrayed in the American media of a mostly peaceful election.
posted by Macswain at
10:46 AM
3 Comments:
For the third time:
Why do you expect democracy to work better in Haiti than in Florida?
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Anonymous, at 1:17 PM
Webhub,
True democracy should work the same whether in Haiti or Florida.
Florida has become a symbol by which the powerful throughout the world view democracy as a game to be manipulated toward a desired result. Haiti exemplifies the problem in a clear and powerful manner.
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Macswain, at 1:38 PM
the bushies obviously don't want true democracy.
their recent pronunciations about spreading democracry only were put forward because the stated reason for the Iraq war--eliminating WMD--proved false.
of course, pure democracy elects guys like chavez in venezuela, morales in bolivia, and hamas in palestine.
do you really think that's what bush's imperialist backers want? No, they want what American imperialist interests have always wanted--unfettered access to third world raw materials and markets. For decades, we've backed or installed a variety of anti-communist tyrants who protected american property interests.
the true bush doctrine (senior and junior) is to boot them out when they snub their nose at Pres Bush. Thus, Noriega in Panama and Saddam in Iraq.
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Anonymous, at 2:25 PM
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