Well, it seems that the nation of Venezuela has a little explaining to do with it corrupted voting rolls. It seems that El Hefe II and his minions have failed to expunge countless citizens who have been dead for several years from their voter registries throughout the country-side but find it alright to arrest and harass citizens who are demonstrating for democracy or just support the political opposition. With the news that dead people are eligible to vote in Venezuela's various elections, it's amazing that Jimmy Carter had the audacity in the most recent elections to call them "free and fair." Anyway here's what The Financial Times has to say about the current mess in Venezuela:
"Why is there such a big fear of undertaking an audit of the electoral register?" asks Alejandro Plaz, spokesman for Sumate, which lobbies for transparency and participation in elections.It's about time the truth of Chavez's election tactics were revealed to the whole world. Lord knows what else has happened in these "democratic elections" under Chavez's reign.
Now, the discovery that Mr Charrière, who died in 1973, is eligible to cast a ballot in local elections in August looks certain to amplify such concerns about the inadequacy of Venezuela's electoral system.
In the final pages of Papillon, Mr Charrière describes his elation at receiving a Venezuelan residency document, or cédula, in 1945, after his escape from Devil's Island and, finally, his release from El Dorado, a Venezuelan prison.
The number of the cédula, he wrote, was 1,728,629 a unique figure in the numerical issuance series of Venezuelan identity documents.
Today, that number, when introduced into the online checking facility of the National Electoral Council, reveals that Henry Charriero, his adopted name, can vote next month in Chacao, a municipality of Caracas.
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