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Haitian ballot boxes found smashed
 Hundreds of smashed ballot boxes and bags apparently used to carry vote count sheets were scattered across a garbage dump, more than a week after Haiti's disputed presidential elections. UN officials sent troops to the garbage dump a few kilometres north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, to recover the election material, according to David Wimhurst, a UN spokesman, who called the discovery "extraordinary".On Wednesday, Associated Press journalists 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. Leading candidate Rene Preval has alleged that election officials have undercounted his support in an effort to prevent him from winning a first-round victory. He said that "massive fraud or gross errors" tainted the results of the 7 February vote. Posted by: Fred 2006-02-16 |
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