Ballot boxes found in Haitian dump

HUNDREDS of smashed ballot boxes and bags apparently used to carry vote count sheets were scattered across a rubbish dump yesterday, more than a week after Haiti’s disputed presidential elections.

UN officials sent troops to the rubbish dump five miles north of the capital to recover the election material, according to UN spokesman David Wimhurst, who called the discovery “extraordinary.”

Associated Press journalists saw hundreds of empty ballot boxes, at least one vote tally sheet and several empty bags, numbered and signed by the heads of polling stations, strewn across the dump.