The
Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) of the Organization of American
States (OAS) that followed the December 29, 2011, General Elections in
Jamaica presented a report today before the Organization's Permanent
Council in which it recommends, among other things, that national
authorities consider the adoption of a "uniform procedure" in all voting
places to prevent delays.

Upon thanking the presentation of the
report, OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza noted that this
report--alongside those by the EOMs to Bolivia and Guyana, also delivered
at the same session of the Permanent Council--is made some days after
the 50th anniversary of the first EOM of the OAS that observed the
elections of February 4, 1962, in Costa Rica. To commemorate the event,
the head of...