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Election official flees haiti after election { February 21 2006 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4734786.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4734786.stm Last Updated: Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 07:54 GMT Election official 'flees Haiti' Haiti's election chief has fled the country after coming under threat, officials say. Jacques Bernard, director-general of the electoral council, left on Sunday, a day after his farmhouse was burned down. He is thought to be in the US. He had overseen the election which was held earlier this month following serious organisational problems. Last week, the council declared Rene Preval president after a change in the way blank ballots were allocated. It is still counting results from parliamentary elections held on the same day, 7 February. 'Afraid' Mr Bernard had been under protection even before the attack on his farm, which lies north-west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Last week he reported receiving threats, Michel Brunache, chief of staff for interim President Boniface Alexandre, told the Associated Press news agency. "He said he was afraid for himself and his family and said he wanted more security. I was shocked when I heard he had left," Mr Alexandre said. Mr Preval's supporters staged daily street rallies after the vote, denouncing delays in releasing the results of the presidential poll. Some of them accused the electoral council of manipulating the count to deny their candidate an outright victory - a claim Mr Bernard has denied. Mr Bernard had also reportedly clashed bitterly with several members of the council, who accused him of trying to dominate the electoral body. On Thursday, the council declared Mr Preval the winner with 51.15% of the vote, following a decision to divide more than 80,000 blank ballots among all 33 presidential candidates.

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