Haitians go to polls amid violence and ballot station chaos

The Independent Sunday 20th March, 2011

Haitians went to the polls yesterday to elect a new president amid the ruins of an earthquake that has left 800,000 people homeless, fears of a cholera outbreak and reports of campaign violence and ballot station chaos. Early indications suggested slow voting, as Brazilian UN troops guarded polling stations and international observers fanned out across the country in the hopes of avoiding the widespread fraud that marred the first round of the election in November. The run-off candidates vying to succeed President Ren

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