Haiti's CEP Steps Up Overseas Outreach for Diaspora Vote
Electoral council officials met with Haitian organizations in Miami as a revised decree allows online registration but requires in-person voting.
Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is multiplying missions abroad to secure the participation of Haitian voters living overseas, Le Nouvelliste reported. The council has been holding meetings in countries with large concentrations of Haitian nationals. In Miami this week, two electoral counselors — Sanon Nemrod, the council's secretary, and Adely Shaida, its treasurer — met with Haitian personalities and organizations to discuss the diaspora vote, according to the outlet. The newspaper noted that the new version of the electoral decree permits online registration of voters, but that voting itself will be obligatory in person. The report did not detail which additional countries the CEP plans to visit or the timeline for the elections. The move comes amid wider debate over Haiti's electoral calendar; Le Nouvelliste cited a Chatham House warning that holding elections too hastily could lead to increased instability in the country. Further details on registration procedures and polling arrangements for diaspora communities were not immediately available in the published excerpt.