VENEZUELA I Witnessed CNE’s Signature Verification Process for recall ref. and none of it made sense

[Marksman_91]

http://www.caracaschronicles.com/2016/06/03/54198/

But the thing that lays CNE’s bad faith bare, the thing that broadcasts its voter suppression agenda for all the world, is the insane decision to invalidate the entire form (10 signatures, remember) due to any minor mistake filling out the top of the form.

If “Presidente” is spelled with a “C” instead of an “S,” then the form, and its 10 signatures, is invalid.

If “Maduro” was written in shoddy cursive, and can thus be read as “Madoro,” then the form, and its 10 signatures, is invalid.

If —as I witnessed on one form— the state on the letterhead was written as “Libertador,” which doesn’t match the official name “Distrito Capital,” then the form, and its 10 signatures, is invalid.

Here’s a taster platter of mistakes that got whole forms disqualified:





Shouldn’t it be the mandate of the autonomous electoral power to make every effort possible so that the largest number of voters may indeed express their will, despite shitty handwriting and faulty spelling they’ve been burdened with by the subpar state education system?

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Despite the arbitrary invalidation of signatures that CNE achieved during this audit, there’s never been any real doubt that MUD has the 197,000 signatures needed for the referendum process to advance, many times over. The entire, byzantine foot-dragging process is as unnecessary as it is undemocratic.

This process of revision finished on Tuesday, May 31st. That’s 29 days longer than the deadline that CNE itself established. MUD could have, should have kept the heat up throughout, running a real-time color commentary on these idiotic shenanigans. It never did. To my mind, they were almost as negligent in airing out CNE’s malfeasance as CNE was guilty of perpetrating it.

This is the most advanced electoral system in the world at work: a bizarre, pointless contraption openly designed to suppress people’s political rights.

The CNE has always been biased towards the Chavista regime. Tibisay Lucena, the president of said entity, has been seen numerous times in rallies and events showing her sympathy for the Failed Revolution. The regime is doing everything it can to slow the process for the recall referendum that will undoubtedly NOT be in Maduro's favor, if the last December elections are any indication.

[Bacchus4.0]

1. There will be no referendum since it means the

End of chavismo