On the contrary, I think that pile of crapola that Capriles came up with ought to be quite closely investigated--and every one of his distortions and lies exposed. Some of them are hilarious. He was not well-briefed.
In fact, most of it has already been debunked. But, yeah, he has a right to file his objections to the CNE and they have a right and a duty to judge whether or not there were sufficient irregularities reported to warrant withholding their determination of the winner. They made that judgement. That's their job--and all the election monitoring groups agreed--no serious irregularities, fair and honest election. And all of Latin America agreed--Maduro won. Even the OAS backed down on this "100% recount" mantra out of Washington.
Venezuela does a whopping 55% audit right on election day, just after the polls close. That is more than five times the audit needed to detect fraud in an electronic system. There was no evidence of fraud in that system, and no other irregularities sufficient to warrant withholding the result.
If there were any irregularities, they of course should be investigated and if crimes were committed, prosecution pursued--or lesser remedies taken, depending on what happened. That is quite different from calling an entire election into question just because it was close. Remember when Chavez lost the 69 amendments vote? That was even more of a squeaker and Chavez just said, Okay, the people have spoken. He did NOT do what Capriles has done, which led to all this violence--calling the election system itself into question, which Jimmy Carter recently said is "the best election system in the world."
What Capriles has done has resulted it deaths, and in defamation of Venezuela's democracy, and in thugs running around burning down health clinics and poor people's homes. I'm sorry but THAT is the crime--and minor election irregularities pale before that crime.
Let's have fairness all around--close scrutiny of every one of Capriles' complaints, and equal scrutiny of the murders and the burnings.
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