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<b><i><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Stand
with the People of Haiti
for Free and Fair Elections</span></i></b>
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<p class="m_9175812477202069901gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Please
read the statement below and mobilize members of your
organization and networks to phone, fax, tweet and send
the message below to President Obama, Secretary John
Kerry, MINUSTAH, OAS and Caricom: </b><br>
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<p class="m_9175812477202069901gmail-MsoNoSpacing">1) the
people of Haiti have had enough of US/UN-supported
fraudulent elections; <br>
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<p class="m_9175812477202069901gmail-MsoNoSpacing">2) it's
time to respect the vote of the Haitian majority as they
work to rebuild their country; <br>
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<p class="m_9175812477202069901gmail-MsoNoSpacing">3) stop
US-financing of the terrror campaign by a minority against
the poor majority who are fighting for democracy in Haiti.<br>
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<p class="m_9175812477202069901gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Pres.
Obama: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:202-456-1111"
value="+12024561111" target="_blank">202-456-1111</a>
Sec Kerry @John Kerry Congress members <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:202-224%203121"
value="+12022243121" target="_blank">202-224 3121</a><br>
State Dept <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:haitispecialcoordinator@state.gov"
target="_blank">haitispecialcoordinator@<wbr>state.gov</a>>
Caribbean Community <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:registry@caricom.org" target="_blank">registry@caricom.org</a>>UN
Mission in Haiti <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:minustah-info@un.org" target="_blank">minustah-info@un.org</a>>
OAS call <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:202%20380%205000" value="+12023805000"
target="_blank">202 380 5000</a>/fax <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:202%20458%203967"
value="+12024583967" target="_blank">202 458 3967</a><br>
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<p class="m_9175812477202069901gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><u><span
style="font-family:calibri"><span
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style="font-size:18pt;font-family:calibri;color:red">Haiti
Rises! – As the US plots to
steal another Haiti election...</span></u></b>
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<p class="m_9175812477202069901gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span
style="font-family:calibri">On a Lavalas campaign sweep
throughout Haiti, former President Aristide and Dr.
Maryse Narcisse, the Fanmi Lavalas
presidential candidate, have been greeted by huge
enthusiastic crowds. There is
much concern however, that the right-wing is putting in
place the usual
apparatus of violence, denying voters their electoral
cards, and instituting
sudden changes of polling stations to suppress the
popular vote, steal
ballots and change the vote count. <br>
<br>
The Haitian people are determined that their votes will
be counted in the
October 9<sup>th</sup> election. After the vote, they
will mobilize to defend
their ballot. Our support outside of Haiti is crucial as
the corporate media
will undoubtedly dutifully report the official
right-wing anti-democratic
version as the elections unfold. <br>
<br>
The concerns below are being expressed by individuals
and grassroots
organizations regarding Haiti's Provisional Electoral
Council, known by
the acronyms KEP in Kreyol or CEP in French. This
agency, supposedly in charge
of organizing free and fair elections, is notorious for
being at the center of
the massive fraud that has marred recent elections in
Haiti. Of great concern
also are the official teams of observers headed by the
OAS and other
international bodies and their local teams that in the
past have hailed and
supported the CEP's fraudulent results as legitimate. <br>
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1) The electoral council or CEP is headed by a leading
figure of the 2004
kidnapping coup d'etat, Leopold Berlanger.<br>
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2) The main coup leader/sweatshop owner, Andy Apaid, now
plays a central role
as lead consultant in the CEP's tabulation center where
the official vote
counting results are collected and finalized for
publication.<br>
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3) The CEP under Berlanger's leadership has failed to
implement a number of
recommendations of the Electoral Verification
Commission. This failure has
allowed fraudulent parliamentary results that favored
Martelly/right wing
supporters to stand.<br>
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4) Berlanger's CEP is insistent on quarantining all
votes from a precinct where
a candidate obtains 200+ votes out of a total of 550
ballots per precinct.
Under the pretext of preventing fraud, perfectly valid
ballots are eliminated
from the count because a popular candidate is receiving
“too many” votes.
Officials of Fanmi Lavalas have been protesting this
measure as it arbitrarily
discards valid ballots in precincts that will have large
turnouts in favor of
their candidates. Quarantined or provisional ballots in
Haiti end up not being
counted and are likely to be destroyed. <br>
<br>
5) A leading figure of the 2004 coup d'etat, Rosny
Desroches, is in charge of
the officially designated election observer teams of
1,500 individuals.
According to radio reports, funding for the observer
teams came through the
National Democratic Institute (NDI) working in
collaboration with International
Foundation for Electoral Services (IFES). While the
International Republican
Institute (IRI) does not have offices in Haiti, it
operates from the Dominican
Republic through a number of existing organizations in
Haiti. [Both NDI and IRI
are part of the U.S. government’s mis-named National
Endowment for Democracy;
the IRI was implicated in the 2004 coup in Haiti.]<br>
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6) It has been reported that the National Organization
for the Advancement of
Haitians (NOAH) is organizing an election observer team
of 200 people. NOAH has
worked closely with the Organization of American States
(OAS) and the State
Department, both of which have been ardent supporters of
fraudulent elections
in Haiti.<br>
<br>
7) The OAS is planning to deploy a team of observers.
The OAS has been
thoroughly discredited in Haiti given its recent stand
in support of the
massive fraud orchestrated by the CEP in the 2015
elections. <br>
<br>
The OAS’ record of support for fraudulent elections in
Haiti includes its
intrusive role in the 2010-11 elections that resulted in
the Martelly
presidency. <br>
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All this means that the U.S. government and its allies
will have their hands
all over how the ballots are counted in this upcoming
election. As the
people of Haiti continue to mobilize for Lavalas, we
have to do all we can to
insure that their voices and their votes are respected.
One person, one
vote. Tout moun se moun. Every person counts.</span></p>
<p class="m_9175812477202069901gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b><span
style="font-family:calibri">Thank you for your
solidarity. <span> </span>Haiti Action Committee</span></b><span
style="font-family:calibri"> </span></p>
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