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Engineer-Poet on August 23, 2005 - 11:30am

The Carter center went home before paper ballots were tallied. As I said, e-voting is not trustworthy (there, here, or anywhere).

If Chávez is so committed to democracy, pluralism and separation of powers, why does he sound like Castro and why did he try to pack the Supreme Court (and succeed) to make it totally subservient to him?

Chávez runs a democracy like any other autocrat: One man, one vote, one time.

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Oil Wars on August 23, 2005 - 11:55am

No you are relying on some false information here. The paper ballot audit was done by the Carter Center and the OAS. They have the reports detailing it at the bottom of this page. http://www.cartercenter.org/activities/showdoc.asp?countryID=87&submenu=activities

As far as the court being subservient - it said the coup against him wasn't a coup and let everyone go. Definitely subservient.

And it is not one vote one time. Chavez himself has stood for election 3 times. There were local elections just recently. Congressional ones are in December and Presidential in 2006. Sorry but Venezuela has more elections than just about anyplace I can think of

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