Haiti - Elections : 25% of the minutes will be checked with an error margin of 2%
Wednesday, 15 days afte itsr installation (mid-term), the Independent Commission for evaluation and verification of election officially launched its work at the Votes
Tabulation Centre (CTV), in the presence of representatives of political parties and organizations, national and foreign of electoral observation.
François Benoît President of the Commission announced that the sample of the minutes (PV) analyzed is now of 25% instead of 15% with a margin of error of 2%https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17382-haiti-flashmethodology-of-the-verification-commission.html "Those are the figures that we will make talk [...] We will say that we evaluated from the figures and we leave the decision makers the task of taking the decision." Ensuring that everything will be done to complete this work by the deadline. To this end, the current team composed of statisticians, technicians, operators and other experts of about 70 people should be brought to a hundred.
In this sampling method, 3,235 PV (25%) were randomly selected in accordance with the size of the electorate of each department out of 12.939 PV available to CTV, (Including those constituting 15% of the sample of the previous Commission) 1,313 PV in the West department, 416 in the Artibonite, 344 in the North, 129 in the Northeast, 164 in the Northwest 265 in the South, 129 in the Grand'Anse, 122 for the Nippes, 137 in the south-east and 216 in the Centre.
Michel Eric Gaillard, member of the Commission recalled that the PV are not the only aspects that will be analyzed, tally sheets, the attendance list, the minutes of deficiency, the incidence minutes, etc... will also be examined and verified carefully, he says, adding that the decision to increase the sample size had been taken to meet the expectations of the population.
