In the municipality of Jinotega, for example, one polling place reports a total of 230 ballots cast, while registering 1,085 votes for the Liberal Alliance. A CSE representative for District Six of Managua gave orders that no observers were to be allowed to accompany the presidents of the polling places into the telecommunications office from which telegrams reporting voting totals were sent to the main computing center. He said that he was the only one among the 38 presidents of polling places in District Six who did not change the numbers. He did not speak up earlier, he said, because he thought this was an isolated incident. But when more accusations of fraud began to accumulate, he decided to come forward.
International observers declare elections 'free and fair'.
What we saw on Sunday was the people saying no to the past, violence, and war and showing that from now on presidents will be chosen at the ballot boxes. In spite of Carter's statements, US Ambassador John Maisto visited Arnoldo Aleman this week to congratulate him on his electoral victory. Aleman also received congratulatory messages from the other four Central American presidents. Other international observation delegations, however, did report witnessing severe anomalies in the electoral process. An independent delegation from Spain also reported various anomalies, such as the fact that poll watchers were not allowed to be present when the telegrams were being sent and that the ballots were often left unprotected.