Posted on 04/17/2013 11:49:08 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Latin America: Venezuela's election on Sunday, which saw bus driver Nicolas Maduro declared the winner by a razor-thin margin, reeked of electoral fraud. Kudos to challenger Henrique Capriles for calling it out. Fraud is a strong word but, yes, it's the clearest conclusion from Venezuela's election Sunday to pick a successor to the late socialist dictator Hugo Chavez. Chavez's hand-picked successor "won" Venezuela's election Sunday, with what Chavez's anything-but impartial CNE electoral body declaring he'd gotten 50.6% of the vote, while his challenger, Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles Radonski garnered 49.07% — a gap of just 235,000 votes. That's suspicious right there, given the structural advantages and Chavez "sympathy votes" Maduro had yet couldn't turn into a victory. Polls — every one of them — showed that Capriles had crossed over to a tie or lead in the last week of the campaign, while the size of his spirited million-strong rallies — the largest since 2002 — told the same story.
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Gee....where was IBD after the November Election here?
0bamas second term: An Election That Reeks Of Fraud
Gee....where was IBD after the November Election here?
Very few people seem to have the courage to speak the simple truth: the presidential election of 2012 was stolen, and we're now living in post-constitutional America.
It is surprising, but if one were to examine the targeted voting fraud [not the normal heavily Dem Precinct cheating] in the very few precincts in the few states that could turn the tide, he’d see it wasn’t an insurmountable problem.
Ohio, Florida, etc.....stolen for sure.
My contacts in Caracas are posting all sorts of photos of active fraud and disposition of boxes of uncounted ballots. I’ll be very interested to see whether this is when the tree of liberty gets watered - that’s about the only thing that will work.
Not much for making comments, are you?
Appears you are just here in a commercial capacity, feeding on FR’s traffic.
Have you any thoughts on that?
And the diff between their elections and ours is?
Betcha they at least had to have real identification.
And that would be different than the last big American election how?
but....but.....but...
jimmah cahtah said it was legit..
the only fraud is committed by states that vote republican..
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