Chavez ruling triggers protests (not enough sigs for referendum) | BBC

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Chavez ruling triggers protests


Protesters believe the government
is ignoring the poll result

Protests have erupted in cities across Venezuela after election officials said the president's opponents had failed to force a referendum on his future.

At least one demonstrator was killed in clashes with the security forces in the capital, Caracas.

The National Electoral Council said only 1.8m signatures calling for a referendum had been verified, but another 870,000 were disputed.

The opposition needs 2.4m to force the vote on leftist President Hugo Chavez.

It could still reach this target - the council has said it will publish lists of the disputed signatures and set up posts where people who find themselves on these listings can go and validate their entry.

More at the BBC

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1. Could be important

Bookmarking this in case the story changes to him not giving them a chance to verify the disputed sigs.

Here is a more complete story about it. Isn't it extremely odd that the article doesn't even bother to metnion why the signatures are said to be invalid? When the ommit somethign like that it is a big clue that they are hiding something.

They want you to think. Hmmmm, he is thwarting this for no reason.

I am NOT saying to automatically assume the opposite either and trust that the council is being truthful but one at least deserves to know it right ? lol

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1211

The Council, by unanimous decision of the Technical Committee, decided that 876,017 signatures grant revalidation on the part of the signers, in accordance with article 31 of the CNE referenda norms, due to the fact that the forms where they are contained present similar calligraphy (filled by the same person instead of the 10 different signers per form).

Hmmm fraud by the opposition?

233,573 signatures were invalidated by unanimous decision of the CNE Technical Committee, due to irregularities according to article 3 of CNE referenda norms. Among those irregularities are, first name, last name or ID number missing, ID number not coinciding with the one registered in the CNE, form number not appearing in the tally forms, amendments made to the forms, mutilations of the forms and the removal or alteration of security features such as serial numbers.

143,930 signatures were rejected due to signers not being registered to vote, minors, foreigners or not authorized to vote.

39,060 requests were ignored because they contained signer's data but no signature.

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2. Look in back articles at venezuelanalysis for full coverage

of the same signature issue complete with photos...

[Just Me]

3. Another of those NED funded actions.

National Endowment for Democracy (misnomer for Funding of Corporate Terrorism):

- first funded by Ronald Reagan

- distributes funds to two democrat and two republican organizations

- republican right-wing controlled and driven

- receives federal funding

- does what the CIA used to do covertly

- funds opposition groups (mostly militant corporatists) in foreign nations.