17286: Dailey: Reply to Holmstead

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Peter Dailey <phdailey@msn.com>

Which 2000 election does John Holmstead suppose he's talking about? The
international condemnation of the May, 2000 parliamentary elections were
not
the result of "midnight revelations about ballot tampering" but a reaction
days
later to the news that the FL-controlled CEP had tossed the constitution
out
the window and devised a new method of certifying winners that would
insure
that virtually every Senate election would go to an FL candidate. Remember
Leon
Manus? Probably not. Although the idea that the "entire international
community
first praised the 2000 elections as free and fair" has become an article
of
faith for Aristide's more credulous FL supporters, it never happened. The
OAS
praised the Haitian people for turning out on election day in "large and
orderly numbers to choose both their local and national governments."

If the 2000 presidential election and the controversy over the turnout
proved
anything, it was that FL is incapable of conducting an honest election
even
when its candidate runs unopposed.

Peter Dailey