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34. Haiti: Election turnout `a big step forward'

Election turnout `a big step forward'
Nearly one third of Haiti's 3.5 million registered voters participated in Friday's election runoff. Results are expected later today.
BY STEVENSON JACOBS
Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE - At least a million Haitians voted in an election runoff to choose a new parliament, double the initial estimate given by some international observers, U.N. officials said Monday.

An official count showed at least 30 percent of Haiti's 3.5 million registered voters participated in Friday's election, said David Wimhurst, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission, citing data from Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council.

Final results are expected as early as today.

Wimhurst said the participation figure represented a ''a big step forward'' compared to past legislative races in Haiti, despite a claim by a European Union observer team that turnout was poor.

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