Presidential poll in Haiti gets off to a slow start
In the wrecked capital Port-au-Prince, several polling stations were unable to open on time because ink to mark voters’ fingers and labels to mark the urns had not arrived. Arguments also broke out over which officials and party representatives should be there.
As groups of Haitians waited to vote, polling officials scrambled to get the stations ready. Blue-helmeted Brazilian UN troops guarded voting centres along with Haitian police, and white UN armoured vehicles rumbled through the streets, many still strewn with debris left from last year’s quake.
