"Anyone who steals an election has no claim to democracy. But somehow there's an exception for Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who's still recognized as a 'democratically elected' leader by the U.S. and others.
It now comes to light that the CIA cybersecurity experts know he fixed his 2004 recall referendum. Two weeks ago, at a field hearing before the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in Orlando, Fla., CIA's Steve Stigall cited Venezuela, along with Macedonia and Ukraine, as examples of the risks of electronic voting.
Chavez, he said, controlled most voting machines and may have provided the program used to 'randomly' select them for audit during a recount, the Miami Herald reported.
The problem went beyond cheating. The referendum was then certified as free and fair by none other than ex-President Jimmy Carter and recognized by the hemisphere as democratic."
It was well known at the time that Chavez rigged the 2004 recall. That's what made it so shocking that tyrant-lover Jimmy Carter lent credibility to the result. Two lessons from this story:
1) Jimmy Carter never met an American-hating tyrant he didn't like
2) Electronic voting machines only make election rigging easier - give me an audit trail of paper ballots any day
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