31.   Even before polling stations closed, election observers reported signs of small-scale fraud.

32.   Election observers said the actual voting process was irreproachable.

33.   Election observers said there was some residual fear among voters on Thursday, given the lingering trauma of that earlier vote.

34.   Evidence from provincial areas was sketchy because of poor communications, but there were reports from election observers and Haitian radio of similar problems.

35.   Foreign election observers will be allowed to document irregularities and talk to the press about the election.

36.   Foreign election observers and journalists visited hamlets across the country to try to gauge the extent of these practices.

37.   Foreign election observers, who will be traveling to Mexico to monitor the voting, are facing delays in receiving visas.

38.   Foreign election observers were critical on Monday of the Supreme Electoral Council for those failings, but attributed the shortcomings to ineptitude rather than fraud.

39.   Foreign election observers say privately that the internal and international pressures probably stopped the government from declaring a first-round victory for the president.

40.   Foreign election observers will speak about their findings Tuesday afternoon.