Chavez is going to disrupt the petition drive and blame it on the opposition. Poll watchers from the Atlanta based Carter Center are standing by to evaluate the honesty of the recall. (Jimmy Carter never met a communist dictator he couldn't admire.)
Chavez has charged his militant Chavistas to watch for petition fraud and is putting 60,000 troops at 2700 polling places to watch for fraud. They will create chaos. He will not leave office democratically.
Venezuela's Chavez warns supporters of referendum their names will be remembered.***"They should know that although they are not going to get (a referendum), their names will be recorded. Unlike in a vote, which is secret, they will sign. They will put their names and surnames, their national ID number and their fingerprint," he said. ***
***Vanessa Roca, a 31-year-old secretary from the eastern state of Monagas, says she lost her job at a state-owned transport company after signing a petition calling for a recall referendum to remove Chavez from office. She traveled seven hours by bus to ask officials at the National Electoral Commission (CNE) to remove her name from the petition.
"A friend who had the same thing happen to him told me this might help me get my job back," she said. "I understand it happened to a lot of us."
As the Chavez government tries to remain in office, state employees and students who signed the petition, or who are suspected of sympathizing with the political opposition, are being purged from jobs, internships and grants, according to dozens of interviews with trade unionists, students, state workers, lawyers and human rights activists.
And in an effort to discredit the recall movement, state workers whose names appear on the petition are being encouraged by the government to sign legal complaints alleging that their signatures were forged. ***Source