David Wimhurst
David Wimhurst
candidate certain elections fact february happy population relief round
First there is the fact that the first round of elections (on February 7) is finished, and with the election of Mr. Rene Preval I think there is a certain relief in the population happy to see its candidate chosen.
anger ben cases hours people several voting waiting
There's some frustration and anger on the voting lines. People have ben waiting several hours now and in some cases they haven't even got inside.
anger voting
There's some frustration and anger on the voting lines.
home security stay
There's a lot of security alerts all over town. Our staffers are being told to stay home because they can't get to work.
expect later people pick slow vote waiting
It's a slow start. We think some people are waiting to see if they can vote later in the day. We expect it to pick up.
looks mess quite
This is really quite disturbing, and it looks like it's going to mess up things quite a bit.
ballots normal
It's not normal to have these ballots there.
bodies dead
This makes the identification of the dead bodies more difficult.
grab people polling quick training workers
Some polling workers didn't show up for work, so we're going to grab people from the crowd, give them some quick training and get them in there.
attention came draw situations violence
We came in here unarmed. We've been in these situations before. I draw your attention back to those who are responsible for this violence and those who are responsible for controlling this violence, and they are not doing that.
checked forensic laboratory ourselves somewhat task
We don't ourselves have forensic capability. We have checked in Freetown, and there is no forensic laboratory available, which makes our task somewhat difficult.
elections expected higher nobody
Nobody expected (voter turnout) to be higher than the first round, and historically there's not a lot of turnout for legislative elections in Haiti.
agreement completing date evidence hope intend peace protocol
Obviously, we always hope that they will see their way to completing the Lusaka protocol and peace agreement, but all evidence to date suggests that this is not what they intend to do.
election people police soldiers sure
People will see a lot of soldiers and a lot of police around to make sure people know the election is going to go smoothly.