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Electoral council extends auditing to all Sunday votes; Capriles accepts
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, CNE said on Thursday it would audit votes cast in weekend presidential elections after an opposition challenge to the victory accorded to President-elect Nicolas Maduro. Read full article
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Apr 19th, 2013 - 07:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anglotino
Apr 19th, 2013 - 07:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0“In no way a recount.” Huh????
I think Capriles blew it - Maduro just wants to keep a lid on things until he is safely through the inauguration.
Interesting that Maduro seems fearful of a true backlash.
Sounds like his “talking bird/spirit of Chavez” trick only fools a few of the people.
:-)
“In no way a recount.” - means they will not do anything even if the election is found to be a total fraud.
Apr 19th, 2013 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its only purpose is to calm the waters by offering a meaningless concession
I still think Capriles is better off not having won the election. The people and the military need to be totally fed up with the failures and blamne the sitting president......and that would be maduro.
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Apparently a vote-cast audit is “in no way a re-count”.
Apr 19th, 2013 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can anybody explain to me what the audit does if it does not review the votes cast.
Presumably there are pre-voting checks to make sure only eligible people vote, and that they vote only once in the right voting 'box'.
And presumably the system locks the data in a system that is only subsequently interrogatable by the audit body.
How can the audit prove corruption or otherwise when the electronic voting system is 'water-tight'?
Perhaps somebody might have a look at the algorithms in the software, if they have not already been returned to an earlier setting (and even this would be seen as a 'ghost in the machine').
The only question really is, would anybody have the balls to say “Hey, this is fixed! The election is null and void!”
In any case it is cheaper to just 'buy' the Audit team.
4 Captain Poppy (#)
Apr 19th, 2013 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apr 19th, 2013 - 11:31 am
Yuo are absolutely right, Captain, let “Pajarito” Maduro take the blame for the run away violence in the cities, the run away inflation, the rising poverty, the lack of food, etc.
When Pajarito can't stand the heat anymore, Capriles can take over and put the whole thing right!!!!!!
Maduro, 50, was declared the winner of Sunday's election by a slim 267,000-vote margin out of 14.9 million ballots cast. That did not include more than 100,000 votes cast abroad, where more than 90 percent were cast for Capriles in an earlier election against Chavez last October.
Apr 19th, 2013 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Venezuelans voted on computers that issued paper receipts used to confirm the accuracy of the electronic vote. Authorities checked 54 percent of the electronic vote against the paper receipts and registers containing the names, signatures and fingerprints of each voter.
Venezuela's National Electoral Council said just before the start of the meeting in Lima that it would audit 46 percent of the vote not already scrutinized on election night. An electoral official told The Associated Press that the new process, to start next week, would replicate the one from election night.
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Capriles has alleged a series of vote irregularities, some of which would be turned up by a new audit, such as charges that there was damage to 3,535 voting machines, representing 189,982 votes, and that voting rolls included 600,000 dead people. He said that many of those irregularities took place in polling locations that weren't audited on election day.
Saying thay, I personally hope the Maduro gang drowns in their own sewage.
6 GeoffWard2
Apr 19th, 2013 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being mindful of a post by a Venezuelan who seemed plugged in, the electronic system is not the concern. Did you notice that?
It seems that there are more eligible voters on the system than eligible voters in the country thus giving the bus driver and his thugs multiple votes AND he still could not win by a convincing majority.
So it could be said he is incompetent at being corruptible. A shining accolade if ever there was one.
Assuming #8 (	) are right ...
Apr 20th, 2013 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0it seems that the one who owns the votes of the 600,000 dead people on the Register wins the election!
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