A single person persevered until he found that the voting machines did
keep the sequence of the voters by saving a time stamp with each vote,
which could then be correlated with the fingerprint machines and now
with the order in which people cast their vote, if anyone bothered to
keep track of it at each of the 27,000 voting booths.
Everyone imagines that this modern day hero of knowledge and technology
for the Venezuelan opposition is your typical hacker, young, geeky and
self-involved. The opposite is the truth, Leopoldo Gonzalez is an
Electrical Engineer who got his Bachelor’s degree at Universidad
Central de Venezuela in the 60’s. Fired from CANTV in 1980 when the
COPEI Government got rid of all the “leftists” engineers at the then
state comany, he then started working at a local private company.In his
60’s today, he has nevertheless kept up to date with technology in the
belief that true power lies only in kwowledge, something not en vogue
in Venezuela and its current Government. Whether Leopoldo Gonzalez will
simply become a footnote in our history or his role will be recognized
or not in the future, I don’t know.
What I do know, is that he is allright in my book. I wish in the last
three or four years there had been more individual efforts like his. I
wish there were more people who believed in science, knowledge and
technology as the way of the future for our country and its Government.
I wish there were hundreds of Leopoldo Gonzalez’ going around trying to
stop this outlaw Government with their brains.
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