Kevin Pina reporting from Haiti on Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein also said the polling stations for poor areas that did not open for hours after voting was to begin, and continued to have technical problems.  He also claimed that stations in wealthier areas likely to favor Charles Henry Baker opened without delay, and that the crowds of disenfranchised insisting on their right to vote knew of this discrepancy.

This is why the people in the poor communities believe the problems are by design.

He said that for this election compared to 2000 the U.S.-imposed government cut from about 12,000 to 800 polling places while a lot more money was spent for yesterday's elections, most of it coming from the U.S., France, and Canada.

Pina described crowds of people, thousands in a group, going to demand their right to vote, declaring their support for Rene Preval and, Pina said, the return of Aristide.  Fortunately the police are letting them go by, the UN troops are letting them go by.

Pina gave credit to the establishment media for reporting that the candidates that supported the coup have small minority support, and he called directly on the reporters in the media to now acknowledge their rôle in creating the paper tiger, puffing up the oppposition to be far bigger than it is.  "It's a puffer fish.  It's [the media's] puffer fish."

What this massive turnout means, Pina said, is that if Preval does not win, this country will utter chaos.  If he doesn't win, because of the right wing elite and its backing by Bush and the Republican party, there will be chaos.

In short, Pina said there is no way out class warfare in this country.  "The vast majority of the poor, so politically conscious, that that genie cannot be put back in the bottle."

"The battle lines are drawn.  There is not going to be any easy way out.  Unfortunately, that means there will be a lot more suffering."

"It also means the majority of this country, that lives in abject poverty, will never be forced into the back seat again."