2001年，美国官员威胁道，除非海地的主要政党接受一家海地选举观察机构中席位分摊的特别的政治要求，否则他们就会使用他们的影响力来阻止事先已经获得批准的泛美开发银行对海地的资助。
In 2001, US officials threatened to use their influence to stop previously approved IDB funding unless Haiti’s majority political party submitted to political demands to accept a particular apportionment of seats in a Haitian electoral oversight body.