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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
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AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN HAITI!
ONE PERSON ONE VOTE.</span></b><b><span
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NO TO STOLEN ELECTIONS IN HAITI.</span></b>
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Haiti’s
Presidential election, postponed from the scheduled
date of Oct. 9<sup>th</sup>
due to Hurricane Mathew,<br>
is now scheduled for November 20<sup>th</sup>, 2016.
There can be no
recovery unless there is a government <br>
in place that truly represents the people. The lack
of such a government is
why there was no recovery <br>
from the 2010 earthquake and why there must now be
free and fair elections in
which the people's <br>
voice is heard. If hurricane relief is separated
from that, recovery will
fail.</span><span
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</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
Haitian grassroots have worked very hard for over a
year, risking their lives
to demand free and <br>
fair elections. As a result of their pressure, the
2015 electoral results
were declared fraudulent.<span style="color:black">
But <br>
there is concern that those who do not want to see
free and fair elections
are putting in place an <br>
apparatus of violence and intimidation, denying
voters their electoral cards,
and instituting sudden <br>
changes of polling stations to suppress the
popular vote, steal ballots,
change the vote count, and <br>
influence “election observers”.</span></span></p>
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normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
grassroots majority is demanding:<br>
<b>1) Free and fair elections. <br>
2) No US/Canada/France/UN interference in the
right of Haitians – one
person one vote.<br>
3) Stop US financing and other support for
the terror campaign by a
minority elite against<br>
the impoverished majority who are
fighting for democracy in Haiti.<br>
4) The new Haitian President must be
installed by Feb 7<sup>th</sup>,
2017, in keeping with the Haitian<br>
Constitution<br>
5) Fair and unbiased reporting by the
international press. </b><br>
</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Fanmi
Lavalas, the political party and movement headed by
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is running a presidential
candidate for the first
time since the US-backed coup removed President
Aristide from power in 2004
and excluded Lavalas from elections. Dr. Maryse
Narcisse has been endorsed by
President Aristide and they are campaigning together
across the country,
meeting huge enthusiastic crowds. <b>Dr. Narcisse
could become the first
woman elected president of Haiti and the first
since President Aristide to be
chosen by and speak for the impoverished majority.</b>
She has traveled as
part of </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Karavan
Solidarite Fanmi Lavalas to areas hardest hit by
the hurricane, assessing
damage and bringing food, medical care, building
supplies, drinking water and
water treatment to prevent cholera, which was
brought to Haiti by UN forces
and has been spread by flood waters.</span></p>
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normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
Haitian people, who mobilized for months last year,
risking
their lives to overturn rigged election results,
succeeded in winning this
new election round. They are determined that their
votes will count this
time and that every vote will be counted. After the
vote, they will mobilize
again to defend their ballot from interference. <br>
<br>
</span></p>
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normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With
the election rescheduled, people are protesting the
end-of-January date for a
run-off election. They say it would not allow
sufficient time to install the
new President by the Feb 7<sup>th</sup> date set by
the Haitian Constitution,
and they are demanding that the Feb 7<sup>th</sup>
Constitutional deadline be
met<span style="color:green">. </span></span></p>
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normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
electoral council (CEP) is charged with organizing
the
elections, but they have a history of overseeing the
massive fraud that has
marred recent elections. There is also concern that
if the CEP results are,
once again, fraudulent, teams of “observers” headed
by the OAS and other
international bodies and their local counterparts
will declare the results
“legitimate” despite evidence pointing to the
opposite. </span></p>
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normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
information below is gathered from people on the
ground in
Haiti: <br>
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1) The CEP is headed by Leopold Berlanger, a leading
figure of the 2004
US-backed coup against democratically elected
President Jean Bertrand
Aristide. <br>
</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2)
The main 2004 coup leader and wealthy sweatshop
owner, Andy
Apaid, plays a central role as lead consultant in
the CEP tabulation center
where the votes will be counted and the results
published.<br>
</span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">3)
The CEP under Berlanger's leadership has not
implemented a
number of recommendations of the Electoral
Verification Commission, which was
established in response to the massive fraud in last
year’s elections. The
CEP has allowed fraudulent parliamentary results to
stand, favoring
supporters of outgoing President Michel Martelly who
was imposed by the US.<br>
</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">4)
The CEP insists on </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">quarantining
a candidate's
votes from a precinct where this candidate obtains
200+</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">out
of
a total of 550 ballots. 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 have
large turnouts in favor of their candidates.
Quarantined or provisional
ballots end up not being counted and are likely to
be destroyed. <br>
</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">5)
A leading figure of the 2004 coup, Rosny Desroches,
is in
charge of the officially-designated election
observer teams of 1,500
individuals. The media reports that funding for the
observer teams came
through the National Democratic Institute (NDI) 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
National Endowment for
Democracy; the IRI was implicated in the 2004 coup
and are known for funding
interference, destabilization and other efforts to
influence elections to
impose US foreign and economic <a
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including
regime change.<br>
</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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 US State Department, both of which
have been ardent supporters
of fraudulent elections in Haiti.<br>
</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">7)
The OAS, which is sending a team of observers for
the November
20th election, has been thoroughly discredited in
Haiti for its recent
support of the massive fraud orchestrated by the CEP
in 2015. The OAS
record of support for fraudulent elections in Haiti
includes its intrusive
role in the 2010-11 elections that resulted in
Martelly being imposed as
president. <br>
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The people of Haiti continue to mobilize for
elections that are truly free
and fair, free from ballot dumping and other blatant
fraud which
characterized the 2015 elections. The Haitian people
are demanding: <b>One
person, one vote. Tout moun se moun. Every
person counts.</b></span></p>
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