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MADem

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5. I thought the fingerprint was used so people couldn't vote more than once...

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Reply #4)

Mon May 20, 2013, 01:06 PM

May 2013

but hey, everyone has ten fingers, and all the person running the machine has to do is look the other way...

That would be creepy if they were dusting individual ballots for prints! Easier to just put a camera over the polling booth and watch how they fill out the ballot...!

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Maduro admits to knowing “the IDs and all” of the 900.000 Chavistas who did not vote for him [View all] Bacchus4.0 May 2013 OP

It's very odd--he has the names of "traitors" from his OWN party, is what he said. MADem May 2013 #1

so much for a secret ballot, the government knows who you are and who you voted for n/t Bacchus4.0 May 2013 #2

Hard to know what his poll watchers were watching. MADem May 2013 #3

yeah, how else would they know who you voted for? Bacchus4.0 May 2013 #4

I thought the fingerprint was used so people couldn't vote more than once... MADem May 2013 #5