--The Head
of the Electoral Board (CNE) said before the vote last Sunday that he had polls
that said that 75% of Venezuelans trusted the CNE and this represented a high
number. I disagree. There should be NO reasons for people not to trust the
Electoral Board. If the CNE acted impartially, without confrontation, split
decisions and had listened to everyone, that approval rating should be in the
upper nineties, like it was in the past. This is another arrogant statement by
Mr. Rodriguez, who shows by just saying it that he has very low standards for
the job he is doing. Additionally, I believe that part of the large abstention
that we saw on Sunday was due to this mistrust in the CNE by both pro-Chavez
and anti-Chavez forces. (A poll today suggested 68% of the people do not trust
the CNE)
--There is
still no explanation of why it took so long to give out the results of Sunday’s
election. The whole point of making the whole process electronic (the cost was 20 bucks a vote!) was that
results would be given out immediately removing a possible source of mistrust
that the results were being tampered with. In fact, it was very strange that
before the polls had closed at 7 PM, Mr. Rodriguez gave out the precise
real-time number of how many people had voted between 4 PM and the time he was
speaking but it took over 12 hours to give us very basis incomplete results. How
can anyone explain this? What was going on?
--Yesterday
I heard a lady on TV from the infamous Tupamaros group, questioning the results of the
election. She was actually a candidate for city councilman (woman), but
incredibly got zero votes according to the CNE. She said that her whole family
had voted for her, but the one thing she was sure of was that she herself voted her
name in So, she was asking, how could I get no votes at all? Good question, but
don’t expect an answer to it.
7:42:10 PM 
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