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Latin America
Dead Venezuelans must register in person to be eligible for Referendum vote
2003-08-08
That's gotta be the headline of the month...
National Electoral College (CNE) authorities say thousands of deceased Venezuelans must register in person with the Permanent Electoral Register (REP) otherwise they will not be eligible to vote in upcoming ballots, including a national referendum to decide if President Hugo Chavez Frias should remain in office until the end of his current mandate in 2006.
Boy, they're a lot more strict than Chicago or St. Louis...
CNE director Romulo Lares says that those individuals whose names do not appear in the electoral register should make haste to do so before the register is closed for a complete overhaul as a preliminary step ahead of an eventual referendum vote requested after August 19. Years of maladministration at the register has seen thousands of dead Venezuelans' names still not removed from the register and in the present undercurrent of ballot box manipulations, earlier elections have seen many "dead" votes cast ... some of the deceased voters have been more than 20 years departed but they still have valid national identity numbers taken with them to the grave.
"Vote early and often, even if you're dead!"
Lares says the situation is "extremely delicate" ... "to make sure the register is correct, we are asking each voter to register in person so that we can check his/her identity and to make sure they are eligible to participate under regulations specified in the national constitution."
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#8  Después de que usted consigue su licencia de conductores por favor regístrese para votar para 'el Gray Davis en la elección de memoria.
¡Si usted vota al Republicano, ellos se llevarán a sus niños y los comerán!
-La Gente la República de California
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2003-8-8 6:26:06 PM  

#7  Tutored by Sam Rayburn, his predecessor as Speaker, and the even more underhanded techniques he invented and mastered during his time, you just know he had favors he could call in all over the Dem Congressional Districts of the State. For it to be close, he must've lost by a landslide in the actual tally. He was a Pro's Pro and a Whore's Whore. I was there in Texas all those years and saw all the winks and elbow nudges. BTW, I distributed yard signs and bumper stickers for Goldwater when he ran against LBJ - and discovered that being in the opposition in LBJ's home state was sometimes dangerous. It was a good thing I was only a kid, else I prolly would've gotten mysteriously mugged or shot in a stickup attempt.
Posted by: ·com   2003-8-8 2:51:34 PM  

#6  LBJ was jokingly known as "Landslide Lyndon" by his peers in the Seanate for the way he won his Senate seat -- by a few hundred votes after frantic, ah, "creative voting" techniques.
Posted by: Steve White   2003-8-8 2:22:20 PM  

#5  Michael - I would like to hear some of the Daley stories! I know LBJ's legendary early forays well enough: He won his congressional seat in an election (Uvalde, in S. Texas, I think it was) where there were more votes cast than there were registered voters. And no one batted an eye. The rest is history, as they say.
Posted by: ·com   2003-8-8 12:46:10 PM  

#4  Don't forget Daley I, dot com
Posted by: Michael   2003-8-8 12:17:08 PM  

#3  Too bad LBJ's dead. He coulda shown Hugo the ropes.
Posted by: ·com   2003-8-8 11:51:44 AM  

#2  Hugo will make sure every one of them shows up to register. They're one of his core constituencies.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-8-8 8:44:50 AM  

#1  You realize that Gray Davis has now signed a no-questions-asked California driver's license bill... and that driver's license holders can vote?

We demand Venezuelan observers for the upcoming Kalifornian elections!

The voices of the Undead must be heard! If you have been dead more than 20 years, please ask an illegal immigrant to cast your vote for you.

Come to think of it, these Venezuelan fellers must be some kind of conservatives.
Posted by: Mark IV   2003-8-8 12:44:00 AM  

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