Chavez foe leads massive march in Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

22. Nor do the people at the National Lawyers Guild

March 5, 2012
NLG election monitoring delegation finds Venezuelan primaries free and fair

Gespass and Johnson note that, unlike prior election monitoring experiences, Venezuela's election system is "advanced by any standard," and that Venezuela has an independent branch of government, the CNE, whose purpose is to run elections.

The report reviewed the elections process, concluding that "the overriding question is whether people can have confidence that problems encountered did not compromise the final result. For these elections, we have no doubt that test is met..."

The complete report is available here for download. Founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association, which did not admit people of color, the National Lawyers Guild is the oldest and largest public interest/human rights bar organization in the United States. Its headquarters are in New York and it has chapters in every state.

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