Haitian Elections Postponed a Fourth Time

Haiti's national elections, set for Jan. 8 and plagued by delays and disorganization, will be postponed for a fourth time, electoral officials said Friday. Three Organization of American States election workers were kidnapped Thursday, police said, illustrating the lack of security surrounding the vote.

The presidential and legislative elections — the first since a rebellion ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide nearly two years ago — were to have been held in November, and have since been postponed three times.

Delays in distributing 3.5 million voter ID cards, disorganized voting centers and problems with the voter database were the main reasons for the latest postponement, Rosemond Pradel, secretary general of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council, told The Associated Press. There has been no official announcement about the postponement.

"In public, the date is still Jan. 8, but in private, everybody knows that this won't be the case, and that we probably won't even be able to announce a new date for the elections by then," Pradel said in a telephone interview. Max Mathurin, chairman of the Provisional Electoral Council, said the council would meet with political leaders later Friday to explain the situation and consider a new date.

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that Bonzo installed in Haiti

they elect? That's simply not allowed. _Bush will get rid of them.

Egypt.