Venezuela's Maduro blasts 'devil' Obama

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49. You said yourself they are not needed at all

You defended the student protesters that went on hungerstrike because they didn't like being fingerprinted:

They don't like mandatory fingerprinting before voting.

and added: "Next thing I'm sure you'll be supporting elections with all electronic voting machines that fingerprint you when you vote."

Personally, I can do without the fingerprinting. It's not done in where I live, in Germany. We don't even register to vote. We get a postcard notifying us of an upcoming election and that's the only identification you need to present in the polling station or if you request an absentee ballot. If you misplace this postcard, like I do most of the time, you can present your ID card.

In Venezuela, you have to present your ID card. Verification through fingerprints is only an additonal measure. With this new biometric data stuff the US demands us to have on passports, databases with fingerprints already exist. So why not use them for other purposes like voting. If the fingerprint readers don't work very well in some instances, well, then they're back to where we are, I guess.