Report on the second round of the presidential and partial legislative elections of March 20, 2011

The RNDDH and its departmental structures observed the second round of the presidential and partial legislative elections of March 20, 2011, the first presidential runoff in the country's electoral history. The report reviews the sociopolitical context after the flawed first round of November 28, 2010, the OAS expert verification mission, the CEP's definitive results and the one-month campaign marked by violence. It lists positive points of the March 20 vote, such as the presence of guides, security deployment and identification of voting centers, and negative points such as errors in voter lists, late materials, mixing of ballots, campaigning on voting day and ballot-box stuffing.

A section describes the vote in each of the ten departments with named incidents. The RNDDH concludes that the vote went better than the first round and that the irregularities were isolated and not of a nature to influence the results. It recommends that the CEP run transparent tabulation, publish results reflecting the people's choice, sanction fraud by electoral staff and candidates, and handle disputes seriously.