Sunday, February 15, 2009

Election Day in Venezuela - Déjà Vu

Update 9:38 PM

Chavez won the election! Humm, I wonder why Chavez conducted the second election about the same issue. Did he cheat? There was one e-mail circulating of a known individual who went to vote against Chavez, but the voting machine immediately recorded her vote for him. The voter was totally devastated and made a scene at the polling place, and her vote was allegedly counted as void!

Aprobada enmienda constitucional que contempla la posibilidad de la reelección indefinida
http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=110283

Ganadora la opción del Sí con el 54,36% de los votos
http://www.eluniversal.com/2009/02/15/pol_ava_ganadora-la-opcion-d_15A2227771.shtml

Update 5:08 PM

El Universal has been reporting minute by minute the voting process
http://www.eluniversal.com/2009/02/15/cenmi_esp_minuto-a-minuto_15A2225843.shtml

Noticias24 also is reporting minute by minute:

Minuto a minuto: estudiantes llaman “a votar por la democracia”
http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/24696/la-jornada-electoral-minuto-a-minuto-los-centros-abren-sus-puertas/

Venezuelan Missions in Europe are reporting voting results. I will list results as they become official later on hopefully this evening.

Update at 12:45PM

Witnesses in Caracas are reporting being threatened by armed individuals while they try to vote. However, citizens know that this is allegedly Chavez in action trying to scare off decent people from the polling places!

Update at 11:44 AM

While the Director of the Consejo Nacional Electoral CNE http://www.cne.gov.ve/ reports that the voting in Madrid, Spain has not been suspended witnesses are reporting otherwise where illegal conditions against the opposition observers are being imposed by the Venezuelan Consul.


A witness is contacting the press with the following text "Las votaciones en Madrid estan suspendidas y siguen suspendidas. Ademas le informo que seguiran suspendidas porque la Consul pretende imponer condiciones ilegales a los testigos debidamente acreditados por el Bloque del NO."

Siguen elecciones en Madrid aunque electores opinan lo contrario
http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=110218


Venezuelans have been voting since very early this morning. Witnesses say that it has not been that many people at least on their districts so far. But, were told by judges that it has been slightly higher amount of people than from December 2, 2007 at the same time.

The following local telephone numbers have been issued to report abuses in the voting process, and encourage witnesses to report anything unusual:

Ciudadanía Activa ha habilitado dos números de teléfonos, atendidos por abogados, para denunciar irregularidades durante el proceso electoral (no solamente el domingo, sino desde hoy mismo). Éstos son: (0212) 317.9409 y (0424) 191.9581.


Asimismo, Súmate tiene el 0501 NOPELAN (667.3526) y los estudiantes, el (0212) 583.7196 (también atendido por abogados).

Retrasmite este mensaje a toda tu red y graba estos números en tu celular, para tenerlos a mano, de ser necesario. No permitamos que nos vengan con trampas.


There is an e-mail circulating reporting the following cheating process:

"LA TRAMPA EN LAS MAQUINAS DE VOTACIÓN ES LA SIGUIENTE":
1.- LA MAQUINA TIENE TRES (3) TECLAS: NO – SI Y VOTAR
2.- LA TECLA DEL "SI" ES MAS SENSIBLE QUE LA DEL "NO". ASÍ LA ARREGLÓ EL CNE. PARA BUSCAR LA TRAMPA.
3.- AL TU SELECCIONAR ALGUNAS DE LAS DOS (2) OPCIONES, TIENE QUE APARECER SOBRE LA PANTALLA DE LA TECLA UNA TILDE: √
4.- SI PRESIONAS EL "NO" Y NO TE APARECE LA "TILDE", √
OJO: NO VAYAS A PULSAR LA TECLA "VOTAR", PORQUE TU VOTO SERÁ "NULO" Y ESO ES LO QUE QUIERE EL RÉGIMEN, QUE TU VOTO SEA ANULADO.
5.- DEBES VOLVER A PULSAR DE NUEVO LA TECLA "NO" HASTA QUE SALGA LA TILDE: √ , HAZLO EN FORMA REPETIDA HASTA QUE APAREZCA LA "TILDE " EN LA PANTALLA DEL "NO".
ENTONCES SI PUEDES PROCEDER A PULSAR LA TECLA: "VOTAR".
6.- DE LO CONTRARIO DEBES SEGUIR PRESIONANDO LA TECLA DEL "NO"
HASTA QUE APAREZCA LA "TILDE " √
7.- LUEGO VERIFICA EN LA BOLETA IMPRESA , QUE ESTA INDIQUE "NO".

Maru Angarita
My blog is: http://maruangarita.blogspot.com/