M Waters on Haiti: Elections & Government

[struggle4progress]

The Interim Government Of Haiti Is Neither Able Or Willing To Hold Fair Elections

WASHINGTON, D.C - Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-35) recently released a statement on Capitol Hill concerning the upcoming elections in Haiti. The Congresswoman's statement follows:

The Interim Government of Haiti announced recently that the elections scheduled for November 20 will have to be postponed until December. It is the fourth time the Interim Government has changed the dates for the upcoming elections, and it is now clear that the Interim Government's own incompetence along with its determination to manipulate the electoral process is responsible for the delay.

The Provisional Electoral Council attributes the delay to technical problems in organizing the elections, problems that any reasonably competent Government could have avoided. The council has yet to hire hundreds of regional election supervisors, provide identification cards to three million registered voters, identify polling locations, or begin recruiting 40,000 poll workers to conduct the elections.

All of these routine administrative details should have been anticipated when the Interim Government promised to hold elections a year-and-a-half ago. <snip>

http://www.caribworldradio.com/cms/publish/article_1142.php

[patdem]

1. I wish this would get more attention...this is a corrupt government WE

put in power...what else can be expected from OUR corrupt governement? :grr: