The Caribbean country's RETURN TO DEMOCRACY AFTER THE OUSTING OF ARISTIDE and appointment of an unelected, U.S.-backed interim government could be delayed beyond December 2005, the current deadline, he said.
Preparations for the election have been torn by infighting, and the electoral council faces the further challenge of trying to organize high-tech voting with digitized identity cards and electronic voting machines in a country that barely has electricity.
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Aristide, WHO BECAME HAITI'S FIRST FREELY ELECTED LEADER when he initially took office in 1991, is in exile in South Africa after fleeing Haiti on Feb. 29. A Brazilian-led U.N. peacekeeping force is on the ground in Haiti.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10369218.htmI especially dislike the part about the
"appointment of an unelected,
U.S.-backed interim government"
and the idea that the elections
"could be delayed beyond December 2005."
What is with the 21st Century?
Verifiable voting went out with the last millenium?
Or it it just some idiotic Florida/Texas thing?