Electoral Registry Anomalies in the recall vote

September 13, 2004

While it is difficult to “prove” there was fraud in the recent recall vote, the team studying the Electoral Registry has detected quite a few anomalies that should be of concern as they seem to be quite implausible from any perspective. There can be few explanations to any of the following numbers, more so when you consider that the census population includes all inhabitants in these towns from babies to the elderly. The first column shows the census populations of those towns in 2001, then the populations of the same towns according to INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica), finally it shows the number of people registered to vote in those towns. In some cases it is more than the ENTIRE population of the towns!:


 


                 2001 Census  2004 INE Registered Voters Percentage


Amazonas State


Maroa              1,731            1,821             2,112                 118%


Rio Negro         2,348            2,515             1,960                   81%


Anzoategui State  


Libertad         13,980           14,301          12.088                   80%


Aragua State


Santos Michelena     39,371 41,941          63,518                 153%


Ocumare de la Costa  8,418  9,016            7,449                    84%


Falcon State


Sucre                          5,400   5,243            5,164                    90%


Tocopero                     4,688   4,971           4,654                     93%


Monagas State


Acosta                       17,568 17,973         22,490                   118%


Aguasay                    10,786 11,988           9,452                     80%


A total of 100 towns were found to have problems like those above. You be the judge.

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