(20 Mar 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of people queuing at polling station
2. Mid of people at gate, sign reading (French and Creole) "Polling station"
3. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Achille Chagmail, voter:
"Today I come to vote and everybody should come to vote, if not the country is not going to get better."
4. Pan of UN soldiers at polling station
5. Wide of election workers setting up ballot boxes
6. Various of election workers setting ballot boxes
7. Zoom out from pile of ballots on table
8. Close of ballot
9. Wide of man voting
10. Mid of man voting
11. Wide of woman voting
12. Mid of woman voting
13. Mid of woman putting ballot in box
STORYLINE
Haitians are voting for a new president amid deep frustration over the slow pace of earthquake reconstruction.
Lines formed before dawn on Sunday outside polling stations as many people sought to cast ballots before church.
"Today I come to vote and everybody should come to vote, if not the country is not going to get better," said voter Achille Chagmail, standing in line at a polling station in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
Haitians are choosing between two very different candidates: Michel "Sweet Micky'' Martelly, a musician with a bad-boy past; and Mirlande Manigat, a former first lady with a long political resume.
Their backgrounds could not be more distinct: Manigat is a 70-year-old university administrator and former senator; Martelly is a 50-year-old pop star who has no college degree and a history of crude onstage antics.
Both emerged as the top two finishers in a first-round vote in November with 18 candidates that was marred by fraud and disorganisation.
Either winner faces major challenges, among them the fact that nearly a million people are still homeless after the devastating January 2010 earthquake.
The election, already delayed by a political crisis, is also clouded with uncertainty over the return of ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a popular but divisive figure whose mere presence was considered by the US government and others as a possible threat to the vote.
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