Posted on 12/04/2005 4:34:06 AM PST by Read2Know
The election day report
This post will be updated through the day as I am covering the voting process.
Last night
We did not sleep well. All through the night there were occasional loud firecrackers. Around 3 or 4 AM there caravans of people circulating with military like clarion, wake up music if you like. At some point in my slumber I sensed them so loud, that I woke up to turn on the TV: I thought that perhaps the elections had been postponed and some people were celebrating. No such luck, it was indeed some chavistas rousing up San Felipe at 4:45 AM...
6: 30 AM
I went to bed very late, unable to sleep with the tension. I was not allowed to properly sleep. And the break of light did find me up at my window watching the voting center in front of my house.
No one!!!!
I remember when on election day of August 15 2004 at 6 AM the line was already going around the block with people waiting to vote!!! We got the answer, the abstention today WILL BE MASSIVE. In fact I stayed at the window to watch until I came to post this, look the time stamped below. I saw the following: 1 voter coming, and he knew the people manning the polling station. Only a couple of people coming to supervise, one of them with the red hat of one of the chavista candidate. Oddly, everyone seems to know everyone, which shows how well the CNE staff is now "recruited" among, should we call them that way, ‘safe personnel’.
I am just so tired that I think I will try to catch an extra snooze.
(Excerpt) Read more at daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com ...
What is interesting here is the expected popular abstention of the election. The people of Venezuela are frustrated with Chavez' secretive and unverifiable "election results" which seem to always favor his party.
Today's entries by Danny are extremely important. This a testament to how Democracy dies and tyranny emerges. A significant historical event will unfold before our eyes.
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