UNOCI will transport election reports
Fraternité Matin – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Choi, yesterday met the Chairman of the PDCI-RDA and UNOCI's military commanders. (...) As part of his consultations with the members of the Standing Consultative Framework (CPC), the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Young Jin-Choi, on Tuesday met the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), Henri Konan Bédié, to update him on progress on the logistical support to the electoral process. (...) With regard to the manual counting, the Special Representative said he explained to Chairman Bédié that this procedure was not in question. "The manual counting will be done in every polling station. The remaining tasks will be the transmission of the reports as well as the tabulation", Mr. Choi said. "UNOCI will transport election reports and the electronic transmission will be done through the IEC's arrangements", he added. (...) He however warned that there are some major challenges to be met, especially after the first round of the presidential election. "Before 31 October, our challenges were technical and logistical issues, but after the first round, they will involve political and security matters", said UNOCI Chief.

Fiddling with presidential election results – UNOCI's officers plotting with Gbagbo?
Le Patriote – To win at all cost. The chief of the "Refondation", Laurent Gbagbo, "100% candidate and 100% president" is imaginative and takes initiatives, whatever they are, to renew his term at the head of the country after the presidential election on 31 October. Convinced that Ivorians are determined not to repeat the same mistake as in 2000 by electing him again, he decided to be elected at any cost. How? According to some sources, candidate Gbagbo and his followers have seemingly already printed millions of ballot papers and official election reports. Since they know that with transparent ballot boxes, it is almost impossible to fill them in advance, they decided to revert to the results. The procedure, as explained by our source, an officer serving in the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), is simple. Let us suppose that we take a polling station (PS) x situated in Abidjan or in the country's hinterland, after the election, it will consist of taking the result, namely the highest percentage and attribute it to the FPI's candidate. You will wonder how it is possible in the presence of the other candidates' observers. According to our source, the strategy of the party in power is as simple as "good morning". Gbagbo's representatives in the polling stations have their strategy. It consists of taking the names of the representatives of the other candidates. As soon as they have them, they will pretend to answer private and confidential calls or pretend to be sick to go out of the polling offices. Once they are outside, they will give the names of all the representatives of the other political groups, especially the RDR and PDCI to their correspondents as well as the results in the election reports (PV). In turn, those persons will report the results on their own report by inserting them. Then, they will forge everyone's signatures. The second concern is how the truly-false results of the also false reports of the FPI will be taken to the headquarters of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)? It seems that the FPI attempted to deal with UNOCI by proposing a lot of money to some officers serving in the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire. Our sources did not name the amount but he said that it is several billions Fcfa. Finally the pilots of the helicopters which will transport the ballot boxes to the IEC will also receive hundreds of millions Fcfa. Their task will consist of: as soon as they take off from the towns with the ballot boxes in the helicopters, rather than going straight to the IEC, they will land at UNOCI's headquarters in Sébroko. From there, other helicopters containing the results given to Gbagbo, will take off and deliver the results to the IEC. The IEC will ignore everything and will acknowledge them. (...)

Distribution of voters and ID cards – Soro reports to Compaoré
Fraternité Matin – The Faso's President, on 26 October 2010, met the Ivorian Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro. After the meeting, the Ivorian Chief of government hosted a press conference where he assessed the situation in his country. (...) "The preparation is going smoothly, the distribution of the voter and ID cards are satisfactory. We reached 90% in Abidjan and 80% in the country's hinterland", he said. (...) to the national and international press, he said he was very comforted by all the things he had seen during the past months. "In spite of the shortcomings, difficulties, the political leaders mobilized and took their responsibilities to resolve the difficulties. Today what we can tell Ivorian people is to remain serene and mobilize so that the date of 31 October is the beginning of a new history for Côte d'Ivoire. (...)"

Press release from the RHDP's executive board
Le Patriote – The executive board of the RHDP held on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 from 10.30 am to 12 pm a special meeting to talk about the method of the validation and the transfer of the presidential election results on October 31, 2010.
At the end of its deliberations, the Executive Board RHDP adopted the following conclusions:
1. After five years of difficult sacrifices, punctuated by numerous postponements of the election, the Ivorian nation is finally called to express its democratic duty during the presidential election that will definitely take place on 31 October 2010. The RHDP executive Board, therefore, takes note of the communiqué of the IEC of October 25, 2010.
2. The Executive Board of the RHDP notes that the method of the transmission of the election results is still the physical transmission of the minutes of the local electoral commission (LEC) (municipal, sub-prefecture) to the headquarters of the IEC.
3. The executive board of the RHDP also notes that under the electoral code, the only structure empowered to declare the provisional results of the presidential election is still IEC
4. The executive Board maintains that the Central Commission of the IEC is the sole structure in charge of the proclamation of the result after a special session.
5 The executive board of the RHDP says that the current debate on the contribution of other means of transmission of the election results can not in any way constitute a pretext to postpone the date of October 31, 2010.
6 The Executive Board of the RHDP wants, each step of the validation of the results of the vote, to be observed by representatives of the 14 presidential candidates including the regional and communal steps.
7 The Executive Board of the RHDP reminds its representatives in polling stations, to be vigilant, to ensure full transparency, integrity and credibility of the presidential election. (...)

Abortive visit to Guiglo - ADO avoids a trap
Le Patriote –Obviously, the bull mastiff has not really changed his shameless way of sitting. Yesterday, in conjunction with the tour of the candidate Alassane Ouattara in the Montagnes and Moyen Cavally regions, the presidential camp and its satellites have tried to create trouble. Indeed, announced in Guiglo, the campaign managers of Ouattara were quietly preparing the arrival of their leader, when young people that witnesses described as militiamen, some elements of FESCI and young patriots identified as members of the FRGO (a militia created and armed by the government camp during the armed crisis), destroyed the plant, dismantled the tarpaulins and broke chairs. The young supporters of Ouattara and especially a large part of the youth of Guiglo went after these troublemakers.... However, Alassane Ouattara decided to cancel his visit to Guiglo.

Presidential Election - Charles Blé Goudé: "I assure everybody, that we will not respond to provocation"
www.Afreekelection.com –The National Campaign Deputy Manager (DNCA) of Laurent Gbagbo in charge of the Youth, on Tuesday hosted a press conference at the headquarters of Cojep. He urged the supporters of the presidential majority candidate not to respond to attacks against them. (...) From the tearing posters of the candidate Laurent Gbagbo, people have now reached the stage of aggression. In the neighborhoods, now they attack people. Several people who wore T-shirts bearing the image of Laurent Gbagbo were assaulted in Abobo yesterday after a meeting. We believe that this is not normal. In Bouaké, the coordinator of Cojep was beaten because he had T-shirts and posters bearing the image of the candidate Laurent Gbagbo. And that is not normal. We believe that this campaign is not an opportunity to attack people. We must learn from the war in Côte d'Ivoire and understand that this election is about ideas. I ask that everybody to cease that practice. I also reassure each one there will be no reaction from us.