On November 30th, the Washington Post’s Mary Beth Sheridan reported on voter turnout in Sunday’s Honduran presidential election:

Turnout was 47.6 percent, several points less than the total in the last presidential election in 2005, according to projections released by the country’s electoral tribunal.

On December 1st, the Washington Post’s Mary Beth Sheridan reported:

The exact turnout in Sunday’s vote was still not known, with the country’s electoral tribunal saying official figures may not be available for weeks. The tribunal said that, based on projections from about half the ballot boxes, 62 percent of eligible voters participated. However, an independent Honduran

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Mary Beth Sheridan may have been working on a tight deadline, but considering the issues at stake, her editors should have killed her story before allowing it to print misleading numbers on voter turnout in the Honduran elections for November 30th Washington Post. Sheridan reports:

The crisis began on June 28, when President Manuel Zelaya, who had embraced the leftist agenda of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, was arrested on charges related to his campaign to rewrite the constitution. Many Hondurans believed Zelaya was trying to extend his rule. Soldiers bundled him onto a plane for Costa Rica, the first time

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