Patrick Fequiere, who is also on the nine-member electoral council, said on local radio that Bernard was releasing results without notifying other council members, who did not know where Bernard was obtaining his information.
The elections will replace an interim government installed after Aristide was ousted in a bloody rebellion two years ago.
A popularly elected government with a clear mandate from the voters was seen as crucial to avoiding a political and economic meltdown in the western hemisphere's poorest nation where, gangs have gone on kidnapping sprees and many factories have closed for lack of security.
Jean-Henoc Faroul, president of an electoral district with 400,000 voters northeast of the capital, accused the electoral commission of trying to force a runoff, saying ballot tally sheets from Preval strongholds have vanished.
"The electoral council is trying to do what it can to diminish the percentage of Preval so it goes to a second round," said Faroul, who openly supports Preval's candidacy.
Wimhurst confirmed that tally sheets with vote results have been found dumped in the garbage, but said the sheets might have been mishandled by election workers and it was not necessarily evidence of fraud.
He said 136 tally sheets containing the results of possibly thousands of votes had still not been processed, and others were still being delivered from outlying districts.
Doors were removed from the tabulation center to prevent electoral council lawyers huddling in private, Wimhurst said.
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