by the Creative Youth News Team
The Creative Youth News Team apologizes to Wally O'Dell and Diebold for implying that they may have rigged the Venezuelan referendum. It seems that Venezuela is now using Smartmatic (Sequoia) machines from a company run by members of the opposition to Chavez.
From http://www.rethinkvenezuela.com/downloads/electricvote.htm
OWNERSHIP OF
SMARTMATIC
The Boca Raton,
Florida based SmartMatic Company designed and manufactured the machines
used in Venezuela's elections. Over the last two years,
opposition
leaders have attempted to make the machines a source of controversy by
claiming that the Venezuelan government may secretly control the
company. But according to a recent investigation by the Miami
Herald, the Venezuelan
nationals who own SmartMatic, Antonio Mugica Rivero and Alfredo Anzola
Jaumotte, have strong ties to Venezuela's opposition. As the Herald
reports,
"Anzola's father, Alfredo Anzola Mendez, was a
prominent opposition
member and a columnist in the anti-Chavez Caracas newspaper Tal
Cual.
'I'm anti-Chavez by conviction,' he said in a
2004 interview at his
home in an exclusive Caracas neighborhood."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071202/ts_nm/venezuela_referendum_dc_14
By Saul Hudson and Ana Isabel Martinez
Sun Dec 2, 6:34 PM ET
CARACAS
(Reuters) - Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez appeared headed for victory on Sunday in a
referendum on allowing the leftist to rule for as long as he keeps
winning elections, government-linked sources said, citing exit polls.
Three exit polls showed
the anti-American leader won by between six and eight percentage points
in a vote where turnout was low, the two sources said.
...
Home