Identifier
Created
Classification
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05PORTAUPRINCE2652
2005-10-27 16:35:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Port Au Prince
Cable title:  

HAITI: 3.32 MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS: ID

Tags:  PGOV PREL KDEM HA 
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UNCLAS PORT AU PRINCE 002652 

SIPDIS

STATE FOR WHA/CAR
DRL
S/CRS
SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD
STATE PASS AID FOR LAC/CAR
INR/IAA (BEN-YEHUDA)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM HA
SUBJECT: HAITI: 3.32 MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS: ID
DISTRIBUTION ON HOLD


UNCLAS PORT AU PRINCE 002652

SIPDIS

STATE FOR WHA/CAR
DRL
S/CRS
SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD
STATE PASS AID FOR LAC/CAR
INR/IAA (BEN-YEHUDA)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM HA
SUBJECT: HAITI: 3.32 MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS: ID
DISTRIBUTION ON HOLD



1. According to OAS elections officials, as of October 24 the
OAS had processed 3.32 million voter records. While
registration closed throughout Haiti October 22, the number
of registered voters will continue to rise through the end of
October as the OAS receives records from outlying rural
areas. When registration officially closed, the OAS had
registered what they deemed acceptable percentages of voters
in all but 15 rural communal sections. Of those, the OAS
opened registration in five but did not register as many
voters as they would have liked. They were unable to open
registration in the other ten communal sections because of
impassable rivers. On October 27, the OAS and the CEP member
charged with registration, Pierre Richard Duchemin, plan to
meet with MINUSTAH to discuss reopening registration in those
15 communal sections, which for expediency they would have to
reach by helicopter.


2. To date, 600,000 identification cards have arrived in
Haiti, but the OAS still has not started distributing them in
large numbers because of a CEP request to stop distribution
until voting centers are identified. MINUSTAH has started to
choose the 800 voting centers from a list of roughly 1786
possible sites furnished by the CEP. It will present the
list to the CEP by October 30 (septel).


3. Comment: Though the decision to hold cards until voting
centers has delayed card distribution, waiting will ensure
that voters know their voting centers before election day and
should increase the likelihood that registered voters will
turnout on Election Day.
GRIFFITHS