27724: Simidor (reply) Re: 27708: Kathleen (comment) counting blank ballots -- Bob Corbett replies (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Daniel Simidor, danielsimidor@yahoo.com

> Corbett suggests:  Someone who was both illiterate
> and confused about the
> voting process and just got mixed up.  Someone older
> who gets easily
> confused and perhaps excited by all the crowds.... I
> could go on.  One can
> imagine many fairly reasonable explanations without
> appealing to
> conspiracies.

Given everything that?s going on, the blank votes are
more likely a little extra-insurance to keep Preval
from crossing the 50% mark in round one.

The question is why?  Given Preval?s somewhat
surprising popularity and the alleged US embrace of
his candidacy, ?manipulating? a Manigat or Baker
victory is not likely to fly.  Some anti-Preval forces
may be out to hurl the elections into chaos, in order
to make Valdes?s prediction of UN trusteeship come
true, or to create the pretext for an outright US
colonization of Haiti.  Haitian and Dominican
progressives are raising an outcry as to why 14,000 US
troops are presently being stationed in the Barahona
region in the Dominican Republic.

The Lavalas shock troops or chimères, in their
over-eagerness to make themselves indispensable to
Preval, are of course contributing more than their
fair share to the chaos with their threats and
confrontational tactics.  And that goes to show that
there is more than one way to break a perfectly good
election.

Daniel Simidor

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