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Voters in Haiti elect new legislators
Police intervened in some voting centers to control overly aggressive political party officials monitoring the vote, according top election observers.
After voting in Petionville, Martelly downplayed the election day problems. “We have some little gaps, and we hope to fix those gaps for the presidential election,” he said. “We don’t know who the troublemakers are. No matter who they are, it’s going to an issue for all the candidates,” he added.
At one precinct at a school in the capital near the gang-infested Belair neighborhood, voting was suspended on Sunday after it came under attack, said Guerline Benjamin, an election supervisor at Ecole Nationale Isidore Boisrond.
It was unclear who was trying to disrupt the voting, though people in the crowd blamed Martelly supporters.
Elsewhere, some polling stations opened late but voting eventually got under way, with voters expressing skepticism that the results would bring much change.
Source: Reuters
