Haitian President Michel Martelly is pressing forward with a plan to reconstitute the military as a kind of national guard or civil defense force to supplement the weak national police.

The voting may have ended but the election is far from over. And while the elections went on in a quiet, orderly fashion many cities and towns – it was anything but in the capital.

Thousands of Haitians flooded of an ID card distribution center less than 24 before Sunday’s presidential and legislative elections.