Capriles still defiant on eve of Venezuela vote recount

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12. There was never much credibility to be restored

with this particular poster in the first place.

As I pointed out to him even before the election, there are regular source code reviews. The European Union Electoral Observation Mission stated in 2005 that:

These activities, initially only planned as static presentations of the code structure, later on evolved, upon request of some observers, into debugging sessions, i.e. dynamic analysis of the running programs where specific operations, for example the casting of a vote, could be followed step by step as processed by the computers involved.

Smartmatic and CNE main developers were present during the audit and actually presenting the system. During the entire audit sessions, they did not appear to try to hide anything. Even when the analysis on the reconstruction of the voting sequence became deeper and deeper, CNE and Smartmatic and CNE staff remained open and very confident.

28th October 2005
Source code assessment and development of electronic signature (EU observers not in attendance)

19th November 2005 Source code review/de-bugging session (EU observer in attendance)

21st November 2005 & 22nd November 2005
Presentation and review of central results tabulation system and source code (EU observers in attendance):
High level explanation/presentation (Powerpoint) giving general overview of structure and workflows of the audit system.

23rd November 2005
Source code review/debugging session of source code of voting machine (EU observers in attendance): This meeting took the form of a line by line review of the source code by Smartmatic and specifically a review of the process of randomising and storing the Vote Files.

p 27 and Annex II (excerpt) of European Union Electoral Observation Mission FINAL REPORT

However, this is not even an issue since there is a paper trail and the results were audited, which takes place in a very reliable way, as you have noted. Thus the opposition, after vehementy requesting a "full" audit of 100% of ballot boxes instead of 54% now ignore it altogether because they know for a fact that the results were always correct.