PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- UN police went to a garbage dump near the Haitian capital yesterday to recover election materials, including numbered bags apparently used to carry results and tally sheets, amid charges that last week's presidential election was marred by fraud.
Besides the bags, thousands of ballots, including some that were marked, were strewn over about 4,000 square metres at the dump.
Associated Press reporters saw hundreds of empty ballot boxes, at least one vote tally sheet and several empty bags, numbered and signed by the heads of polling stations, strewn across the fly-infested dump about eight kilometres north of Port-au-Prince.
"That's extraordinary," UN official David Wimhurst said.
Catherine Sung, a UN electoral adviser who works at the main vote tabulation centre, said the discovery of empty bags was troubling because they were not supposed to be thrown out.
When shown photos of the bags, Sung said three of them were the kind used to carry invalid and blank ballots.
"They're supposed to be kept," she said.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/International/2006/02/16/1445265-sun.html
Kinda reminds me of americas diebold vote machine, except votes end up in the garbage bin instead of on the garbage dump. Kinda like the whitehouse email system where inciminting emails fingering dick cheney mysteriously get erased or george bush's military records erased in a batch of micro fiche sheets subjected to a new cleaning process that goes horribly wrong
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security has not been able to find any recording of a crucial conference call five hours after Hurricane Katrina made landfall - though it has transcripts of other key discussions recorded in the days before and after the storm struck.
Senate investigators want to know who conferred and what they said on a 40-minute call that began at noon Aug. 29, as levees were being breached in New Orleans and government relief efforts were overwhelmed by the enormity of the storm.
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-chertoff0215.artfeb15,0,
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Irest my case peeps.What a joke america is turning into,what freakin joke ..
Haiti ballots found in dump
