Maduro admits to knowing “the IDs and all” of the 900.000 Chavistas who did not vote for him

[Bacchus4.0]

http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/18/maduro-admits-to-knowing-the-ids-and-all-of-the-900.000-chavistas-who-did-not-vote-for-him

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro admitted to knowing ‘with IDs and all’ who are the 900.000 Chavistas who crossed lines and did not vote for him in the 14 April election which anointed him as the successor of deceased Hugo Chavez.

The Venezuelan president made the revelation during one of his ‘Government in the Streets’ act
“When there is a man fallen in combat as was our commander (Chavez) strength must prevail. Instead of feeling defeated by sadness, we must defeat that sadness and overcome the lethargic feeling. We have identified the 900.000 compatriots with IDs and all…which meant that the gap was smaller, when the gap could have been good”, said Maduro during one of his outdoors ‘Government in the streets’ ceremonies.

Maduro’s candidness or ‘active imprudence’ further questions the fragility of the ballot system in Venezuela. Since the Venezuelan Electoral Council decided to make more automatic the voting process and included bio-metric identification systems to go to the polling booth, the opposition and experts have claimed there are no guarantees the ballot is effectively secret.

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It is also fresh in the minds of Venezuelans the famous Tacon List which was elaborated by the Chavez administration with the data from those persons who signed for a referendum to oust Chavez in 2004 and later became an exclusion mechanism for those wishing to obtain a government job or making business with the state.

There are almost a million votes that last October supported the deceased leader helping him to a new re-election, but on 14 April they turned around and voted for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. The migration was seen as ‘treason’ by the most radical supporters of the ruling Venezuelan Socialist party and even Maduro attacked them on national television a few hours after he had been declared winner and the successor of Chavez.

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How and WHY does Maduro have names of these voters?????????????

[MADem]

1. It's very odd--he has the names of "traitors" from his OWN party, is what he said.

I think he is already regretting that comment--it seems to lift the veil on some sort of very ugly stuff....either that, or it exposes him as a big huge bullshitting blowhard.

"We know who you are! Be very afraid!" is not a good leadership tactic.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. so much for a secret ballot, the government knows who you are and who you voted for n/t

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[MADem]

3. Hard to know what his poll watchers were watching.

I guess you have to look UP when filling out that secret ballot...? Maybe there's a hole in the ceiling, or something!!!!

[Bacchus4.0]

4. yeah, how else would they know who you voted for?

I think they do use a fingerprint device that would make it pretty easy to track voters and votes.

[MADem]

5. I thought the fingerprint was used so people couldn't vote more than once...

but hey, everyone has ten fingers, and all the person running the machine has to do is look the other way...

That would be creepy if they were dusting individual ballots for prints! Easier to just put a camera over the polling booth and watch how they fill out the ballot...!