Venezuela's records suggest vote fraud

The Mercury News ^ | Mar 16, 2006 | Steven Dudley and Phil Gunson

[proud_yank]

EX-OFFICIAL UNCOVERS IMPROBABLE PATTERN By Steven Dudley and Phil Gunson Knight Ridder

MARACAIBO, Venezuela - It was the 32nd birthday of 1,921 Gonzálezes registered to vote in the western state of Zulia on Wednesday. But instead of celebrating with balloons and cake, many Venezuelans have been shouting fraud.

Every one of these Gonzálezes obtained their first government ID -- and simultaneously registered to vote -- in 2004, just before President Hugo Chávez defeated a recall referendum. And many of them registered on the same day, at the same registration center.

The case is ``one for the Guinness Book of Records,'' said Roberto Ansuini, a former opposition representative on the National Electoral Council who stumbled on it while looking into the registry's reliability. He said the most Gonzálezes ever born on one day in one year in Venezuela is 89.

[proud_yank]

PING – Hugo is at it again!

Please FReepmail me if you would like on/off my Hugo/Venezuela Ping list.

[operation clinton cleanup]

But.... the Carter Center approved it!

[stubernx98]

Yeah, but Jimmy Carter said .........

[Army Air Corps]

Say it ain't so, Jimmuh, say it ain't so.

Carter is an appeasing, senile gas bag.

[proud_yank]

Imagine that??? Hugo is once again gaining support from dems!

[bvw]

Once Carter was elected the nation began its epedemic of peanut allergies. Clinton and Buchannun were both GREAT presidents compared to Carter.

[jazusamo]

Couldn't be any election improprieties in Venezuela, Carter says it was an honest election.

[Gordongekko909]

William Henry Harrison did more to help this nation than Carter did, and Harrison did a hell of a lot less to harm it.

[Wilhelm Tell]

This fraud would have never happened if Jimmy Carter had been there to monitor... oh, never mind.

[proud_yank]

I was born a Reagan baby, so I don't know too much of Jimmuh. Wasn't it true though, that during his term there was an actual 'index of misery' to measure the effect of his policies on people?

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

Paging Mr. Carter... please put up the white courtesy phone.

[EagleUSA]

This is very difficult to believe -- such a fine government...fraud? In elections? I am shocked!!!

[adorno]

It was the 32nd birthday of 1,921 Gonzálezes registered to vote in the western state of Zulia on Wednesday. But instead of celebrating with balloons and cake, many Venezuelans have been shouting fraud.

Too late now!

Besides, you can't go around disenfranchising Gonzaleses, real or not. At least that's what the democrats here in the states would say.

[proud_yank]

Don't the rats here generally prefer dead voters?

[Gordongekko909]

Indeed, fellow FReeper born in the 1980s. The term "misery index" was coined during his administration. Misery Index = Inflation + Unemployment.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

I'm shocked I tell you, Shocked!

[proud_yank]

LOL, which seem to be directly proportional to 'degree of liberalism'.

[Conservative Firster]

[operation clinton cleanup]

I am not dead yet!