Election-stealing is easier in the nite: Venezuela and Supreme Court

[FullCountNotRecount]

Remember how the wimpy supreme court of the U.S. released their decision late at nite because it wouldn't stand up in the light of day? Bush's CIA works better at nite. We won't know anything til middle of the nite. Hopefully there's more passion in Venezuela than there was here about counting all the votes correctly.

[MuseRider]

1. Did they vote

on paper?

[w13rd0]

2. touchscreens

ha

[ParanoidPat]

3. Yes and no.....

.....they voted on touch screens that produce a paper ballot! :evilgrin:

According to USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2004-07-12-venezuela-evote_x.htm

A square piece of paper popped out of the computer, a physical
record of his vote. That, Mugica insists, is the system's primary
safeguard against fraud: A paper trail that allows for a recount of
any contested election.
Voters must deposit the slip into a ballot box before they can
retrieve their IDs from polling officials.
The paper trail theoretically spares Smartmatic from a key complaint
about touchscreen machines in the United States. Those machines won't
have paper records in November, although a growing number of U.S.
states will mandate them in future elections.

One to watch. :)

[MuseRider]

5. Thanks.

That is what I thought but I did not know about the paper.

[didntvote4shrub]

4. ..just a point...

The USSC released its decision at 10pm because the deadline for vote-counting was at midnight, and they wanted to be sure that there was no time to mount any appeals or godforbid, finish the counting. I don't really think "hiding the decision" ever entered into it.