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Posted on 08/02/2005 4:29:30 AM PDT by alekboyd
London 02.08.05 | Some sources report an odd meeting a few days ago in Caracas' military base Fort Tiuna. The assistants: President Hugo Chavez, VP Jose Vicente Rangel, electoral chief Jorge Rodriguez, Minister of Defence Orlando Maniglia and Smartmatic's 'wunderkinds' Antonio Mujica and Alfredo Anzola. The get together was called by Chavez on July 12 to have the number of votes in the coming elections fixed, for chavista democracy must be showcased to the world as a thriving one. And what better than 10 million votes to prove it?
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Very interesting! I had no idea that the Carter Center was actually paid to do this - I thought Jimmuh was just offering his praise-of-leftwing-dictators for free.
I suspect many people are unaware of his tie-in with the very much for-profit Smartmatic. A very interesting detail.
Can you say "Rigged?"
Jimmah only looks like shat won't melt in his mouth. The religious persona is all agenda driven. Drunk brother Billy was the honest one in the Carter family.
Jimmy Carter has done more damage to freedom, democracy, and peace than any human now living.
Ping to interested parties. Read the entire article. I had no idea that the Carter Center was a "subcontractor" of anybody, and charged for its supposed verification services. This casts a somewhat different - and even worse - light on things.
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You can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the Venezuelan government bought a share of Smartmatic before the previous election, and that the software set that Smartmatic used was written by a Venezuelan company that had not previously written software for voting machines, but was chosen by the Chavez regime.
The opposition parties were not allowed to see the software, or to test the machines prior to the election. They were also not allowed to test suspect machines after the election. Needless to say, the Carter Center did not verify either the machines or the software, they weren't allowed to have witnesses in the election command center, and the regime chose which boxes of ballots to recount afterward, and Carter accepted that as legitimate.
I have long considered Carter to be smarmy, but this election convinced me that he is corrupt as well.
This election can be considered rigged if again they will not allow the machines to be verified, and they will not allow impartial observers in the election headquarters.
I have been told that the Carter Center got paid in the vicinity of $10 million for its Venezuelan adventure. No wonder Jennifer McCoy is soul-searching and writing a book in Italy...
I agree. Does anybody know if Mary Anastasia O'Grady knows about this? (Our one good writer on VZ.)
I'm going to send her an e-mail if I can find an address. Or maybe just c/o the WSJ.
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