By Vania Andre

PORT-AU- PRINCE – Voting was off to a slow start on Sunday, with some polling sites opening nearly four hours after their anticipated start time. At the Ruelle Vaillant polling station, lines with dozens of people were wrapped around the infamous voting site, where several journalists were killed during the 1987 elections.

Tensions escalated quickly at the Elie Dubois High School polling station in downtown as lines grew, and voters became frustrated with the lack of organization and communication from election officials.

Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Presidential campaigning began in Haiti Wednesday, where 54 candidates are vying for the top office amid heightened criticism of the country’s electoral commission. The record number of candidates, all of whom hope to replace President Michel Martelly as leader of the Americas’ poorest nation, will square off in Haiti’s October 25 first-round…

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Voting in parts of Haiti’s capital and some rural areas will be re-run after violence and voter intimidation disrupted elections this month in the impoverished Caribbean country, election officials have announced. Gangs overran some voting centers in Port-au-Prince and other areas, forcing election officials to halt balloting in the Aug. 9 legislative…

Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Fourteen candidates who ran in Haiti’s first-round legislative elections have been disqualified over their suspected involvement in crime and violence that marred polling, election officials said Tuesday. Two people were killed during the long-delayed August 9 elections and sporadic violence forced dozens of voting centers to close in the first voting since…

Port-au-Prince (AFP) – International observers and Haitian human rights groups on Tuesday sharply criticized the country’s violence-marred legislative elections as poorly policed and organized. At least two people were killed during voting Sunday that was disrupted by attacks and other problems that forced the early closure of at least 26 polling centers. Pierre Esperance, executive…

An international mission that monitored legislative elections in Haiti said Monday that there were scattered problems with violence and other disruptions during Sunday’s first round but not enough to disrupt the legitimacy of the overall vote.

The Organization of American States had 28 observers monitoring Sunday elections that saw Haitians choose lawmakers for the next Parliament in a contest that was delayed for nearly four years. They visited 171 of more than 1,500 voting centers across the country of 10 million people.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Most polling stations closed in Haiti Sunday, after a day of voting in long-postponed legislative elections marred by sporadic clashes, delays and disorder. Voting officially ended across the Caribbean nation, the poorest country in the Americas, at 4:00 pm (2000 GMT), but some polling stations were to remain open later due…