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Major problems in ETimor vote.

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Serious flaws in East Timor's presidential election may force some areas to repeat first-round voting but time to fix the problem is critically short, an election official says. The vote count is inconsistent and some polling officials have failed to carry out their duties properly, said Martinho Gusmao, a spokesman for the national election commission. "We noted inconsistency in the data," Mr Gusmao said after Monday's presidential vote, which ended in a stalemate with a runoff due on May 8.

In some districts the number of valid ballots did not match the tally of votes declared for the eight candidates, he said. Officials also failed to report the count properly using the correct documentation, he said. "It is very, very difficult to resolve this situation," he said. "The worst hypothesis would be a re-election in some areas." The situation is "very critical" because the problems must be addressed within 72 hours, which may be impossible, he said. There have been growing questions about the conduct of the first-round vote, the first presidential poll in East Timor since independence in 2002. Most of the candidates who stood formally demanded a recount, even though international observers said the poll in the former Portuguese colony was generally orderly and peaceful. The commission rejected their demand on Thursday, saying it had no legal basis to accede to the request. A number of the candidates also raised the possibility that voters were intimidated, stoking fears of instability in the troubled state ahead of the second round. "Most of the voters did not know what to do," Mr Gusmao said, adding they should have been better educated about polling procedures. Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor's current prime minister, and Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres, the ruling Fretilin party's candidate, emerged to contest the runoff. Final first-round results were supposed to be published on Sunday. Foreign peacekeepers have been on the streets of East Timor, formally known as Timor-Leste, for nearly a year after gang violence left 37 people dead and sent 150,000 fleeing their homes in April and May 2006. Violence has pulsed through the impoverished country since a bloody split from Indonesia, which occupied East Timor for 24 years up to 1999.

SOURCE: AFP

Tuir Comisaun Eleitoral Padre Martinho nia har'e problema boot ida kona ba resultado eleisaun nian,situasaun ne'e defisil tebes tanba iha fatin balun iha presaun atu repete fali vota primeiro nian i agora sira rasik atu tama ona ba segunda parte eleisaun i tempo nebe mak iha badak tebes se karik atu hahu fali primeiro votasaun nebe candidato barak mak la satisfeito ho resulatado prelimenario. I sira here'e tempo badak liu atu hahu hikasa fali votasaun primeiro nian nebe iha reclama no komplain katak votasaun ne'e la vale i unfair tanba ne'e presisa atu hahu fali i komisaun sente ne'e todan tebes ho tempo nebe badak sira tenki kompleto ona resulatado votasaun no karik sei fo sai iha domingo mai ne'e.
No hanoin sira ne;e hotu komisaun eleitoral rejeito reclama husi kandidatu no votantes sira loron hirak liu ba i sira labele halo buat baral liu tanba laiha bazeia legal kona ba eleisaun ne'e tuir kandidato presidente sira seluk nia hateten iha sira nia deklarasaun hamutuk katak iha mos intimidasaun barak ba votantes sira iha distrito wainhira atu ba votasaun i sira nian hare'e ne'e la tuir regra eleisaun nian , kona ba buat hirak padre Martinho dehan teni katak votantes sira presisa atu simu tan edukadaun barak kona ba oin nusa atu ba hili vota tanba iha surat tahan votantes barak mos mak la valido.