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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 27, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Miami Herald
  AUGUST 20, 2015
  
  Photo: In this Aug. 9, 2015 file photo, election officials count votes during parliamentary elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dieu Nalio Chery AP
  
  BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
  jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article31660835.html

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE
  Balloting in Haiti’s recent violent, chaotic legislative elections will be rerun in 25 constituencies nationwide, including in the Artibonite Valley where the vote for several seats in the lower Chamber of Deputies has to be redone because of violence at the polls.
  
  Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) made the announcement Thursday afternoon while also declaring a number of corrective measures it plans to take for the Oct. 25 runoff to prevent a repeat of the violence, late starts and voters’ list problems that marred the Aug. 9 legislative election. Among them: the campaigning period will extend beyond a month for candidates in the runoff and credentials for political party monitors will be available 15 days before the vote.
  
  Officials also announced that voter turnout was a measly 18 percent countrywide with the West department, which includes Port-au-Prince, posting the lowest with 10 percent.
  
  CEP member Nehemy Joseph also warned that the council wasn’t done taking sanctions against candidates — or political parties for the election day violence.
  
  “There are decisions that will be taken,” he said.
  
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