In Haiti, voters are awaiting the outcome of the first presidential election since the U.S.-backed ouster of the Lavalas government of President Jean Bertrand Aristide two years ago. There were no polling stations in the Lavalas stronghold of Cite Soleil, home to at least 200,000 people. Voters swarmed out of that poor neighborhood as well as Bel Air and other areas to discover that voting stations had failed to open, election officials had no ballots, registration lists were incorrect and lines stretched for blocks. Angry crowds stormed the gates of the voting stations. At least four people died, including a police officer who was killed by a mob after fatally shooting a voter. The frontrunner in the election is former Aristide ally Rene Preval. He served as Aristide’s first prime minister and succeeded Aristide as president in 1996.