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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Oct 27, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
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  Associated Press By DAVID McFADDEN and DANICA COTO
  October 27, 2015
  
  Photo: An electoral worker looks at a computer screen as she enters data into a computer at the tabulation center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. Final results are not expected until late November, according to the country's Provisional Electoral Council. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://news.yahoo.com/haiti-faces-long-wait-results-presidential-election-050402453.html

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's voters have spoken. But nobody's quite sure what they've said.
  
  Even tentative results of Sunday's presidential election likely won't be known for at least 10 days, despite the fact that the election, which involved 54 presidential candidates and tens of thousands of contenders for other races, went unusually smoothly.
  
  Few places in the world take longer to give citizens any hint of who won an election.
  
  One reason is that it's against the law for results to be released by anyone other than the Provisional Electoral Council, whose members are replaced every election cycle.
  
  "A lot of the learning that is accrued every time they go through an election process seems to be lost," said Kenneth Merten, Haiti special coordinator for the U.S. State Department and a former U.S. ambassador to the country.
  
  Haitian and international observers said Sunday's vote was largely free of the violence and disorder that has plagued previous elections, including the first round of legislative elections in early August.
  
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