Poll: Most Haitians would vote if they saw elections as fair
Poll: Most Haitians would vote if they saw elections as fair
Associated Press
By DAVID McFADDEN
13 minutes ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A poll released Wednesday by an independent research group says most Haitians would vote if they had confidence that elections were fair and suggests there was even weaker turnout in last year's balloting than officially reported.
The Brazil-based Igarape Institute, which has conducted social science polling in Haiti for over a decade, said teams of "university-educated Haitians" conducted a survey about electoral issues with 1,766 randomly sampled adults across the country Jan. 17-22. It had a margin of error of about three percentage points.
The poll was done shortly before Jan. 24 presidential and legislative runoff elections were postponed indefinitely 48 hours before their start amid violent protests and suspicions of "massive fraud" in October's first round in favor of the outgoing president's chosen successor.
Among the findings, the researchers said responses show that while there is deep voter disenchantment in Haiti some three-quarters of respondents would vote if they were convinced the process was fair.
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