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| 1 |  | 2010-08-28: Project Members Discuss Wyclef Candidacy by Washington Post Express |  |
| Rating: 3 |
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| 2 |  | 2010-08-26: Yes, Throw Out the Baby with the Bathwater by Robert Bénodin, Radio Classique Inter |  |
| The internationals apply a conservative policy clinging to the status quo, fearing regime change and social explosion. However, it is the continuance of regimes like Préval's that provokes unrest. We need to throw out both baby and bathwater. | Rating: 3 |
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| 3 |  | 2010-08-26: Doubts About Wyclef Candidacy by Sean Penn, The Huffington Post | |
| He'd referred to himself as "His Excellency Wyclef Jean" and "The most famous man in Haiti" on a self-generated flier in the leadup to his troubling announcement. I asked Americans to ask critical questions before jumping to support a candidate. | Rating: 3 |
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| 4 |  | 2010-08-23: 2010 Elections a Theft Programed by President Préval by Sauveur Pierre Etienne et al., on Radio Caraďbe's Ranmasse | |
| Sen. Jeanty adds that it is technically impossible to hold true elections by November 28 and advises that they be left to a transition government which would hold them within a realistic time-frame. | Rating: 3 |
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| 5 |  | 2010-08-23: Wyclef's Gamble by Liliane Pierre Paul, Radio Kiskeya | |
| He threatened to blow away the stranglehold of the clan in power. But his defiance of the boycott of the discredited electoral board by the major parties was risky. | Rating: 3 |
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| 6 |  | 2010-08-23: Press the Struggle Against False Elections by Sen. Edmonde Supplice Beauzile et al., on Radio Metropole | |
| The Fusion, Lavalas, and OPL party leaders call for mobilization of all the sectors to block the elections. A long-delayed conferences to unify the opposition is now set for September 20. | Rating: 5 |
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| 7 | | 2010-08-18: Préval Pressuring CEP To Bump Major Candidates and Leave His Choice in Place by Radio Kiskeya | |
| Cites "unconfirmed" meeting of Préval with CEP where he called for their elimination. Haiti Democracy Project has confirmed both the meeting and the acute pressure including travel ban on wavering members who threatened to leave the country. | Rating: 5 |
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| 8 |  | 2010-08-18: Can an Electorate That Is 70 Percent Illiterate Make an Informed Choice? by Emmanuelle Gilles | |
| In a democracy everyone has the same vote regardless of education. But don't be surprised if, instead of the competence Haiti needs, they vote for rappers, Aristide-type criminals and thieves, or Préval-type mediocrities. | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 |  | 2010-08-18: Elections Should Be Boycotted by Sauveur Pierre Etienne et al. on Ranmasse, Radio Caraďbes | |
| Victor Benoit questions candidates who lend legitimacy to elections by participating in hopes of getting a few crumbs from the big chief. A former deputy declines to participate in elections he characterizes as a farce preprogrammed by Préval. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 |  | 2010-08-18: Threats Force Wyclef Jean Into Hiding by National Public Radio | |
| Jean said he was in hiding after receiving death threats. He said he received a phone call telling him to get out of Haiti. | Rating: 3 |
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| 11 |  | 2010-08-08: If Accepted Wyclef Jean Would Appeal to Youth by James Morrell, project director, in Miami Herald | |
| "I would say if these are indeed the candidates, you could look to Wyclef Jean to appeal to the youth," said James Morrell, a longtime Haiti observer and executive director of the Haiti Democracy Project in Washington, D.C. | Rating: 3 |
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| 12 | | 2010-08-08: Risking the Continuation of Failed State by Robert Bénodin | |
| The U.N.'s decision to have the elections on time cut short certain maneuvers but hands Préval a golden opportunity to have a low-turnout election rigged by his chosen electoral board. This risks losing the refoundation of the state that Haiti must have. | Rating: 5 |
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| 13 |  | 2010-07-15: Assessing Feasibility of Free and Fair Elections by International Foundation for Election Systems | |
| Electoral commission's operations branch is capable but board lacks credibility. It should be replaced as per Article 289 of the constitution. | Rating: 3 |
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| 14 |  | 2010-07-14: Declaration of Civil Society by Rosny Desroches et al. | |
| The president acts like an absolute monarch. The electoral board intends to steal the election. We can't take five more years of this degradation: Haiti would disappear as a nation. | Rating: 5 |
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| 15 |  | 2010-07-13: Préval Snubbed by Venezuela and Cuba by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| The slights signal a growing lack of confidence of the international community. Blocked from staying personally he is now trying to perpetuate his clan via phony elections. In insisting on having them MINUSTAH is protecting a faction, not a country. | Rating: 3 |
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| 16 |  | 2010-07-08: Deep Reform of Electoral Machine Needed by Myrlande Manigat, on Radio Métropole | |
| BED and BEC members chosen in violation of criteria. Opens it up to fraud in handling of ballots there and in the tabulation center. The whole electoral commission should be revoked, and the opposition included at all levels. | Rating: 3 |
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| 17 | | 2010-07-08: Préval Planning to Control Permanent Electoral Commission by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| Amidst new signs of erosion of international support, Préval sets in motion a plan to create and control a permanent electoral commission. | Rating: 5 |
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| 18 |  | 2010-07-07: Better Good Elections Later Than Bad Ones Now by James Morrell, director of the project, on Radio Energie, Boston | |
| Agrees with prominent members of civil society that it would be better to wait and have elections under an interim government than to have poor elections under Préval. | Rating: 5 |
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| 19 |  | 2010-06-29: Préval Has Declared War On the Rest of Haiti by Mirlande Manigat, coordinator of the Platform of Patriotic Haitians | |
| He has chosen the path of confrontation tantamount to a declaration of war and rejection of dialogue. We call on all the morally and politically conscious sectors to oppose this measure which tramples on the call for free and fair elections. | Rating: 5 |
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| 20 | | 2010-06-26: Electoral Commission Stays by President René Préval, on Radio Kiskeya | |
| He imposes unchanged a board decried by the opposition for lack of impartiality and gives it power over all upcoming elections including local. | Rating: 3 |
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