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the ballot itself the ultimate unfair advantage that rodriguez claims is absent from the process approved sealed and ratified by the cne under protest form the opposition parties and the international observers have taken notice electronic voting in the past this will be the fourth process in a row in which electronic voting with the smartmatic machines and the cogent fingerprint machines is used in each case there are four basic components to the system the smartmatic voting machine the tallying system the transmission and the fingerprint machines the smartmatic machine is a windows based machine with all of the file systems of windows the same processes controls etc it has usb ports can transmit and can print the cogent afis system is really a software system that looks at certain characteristic features of fingerprints and matches it with a database it comes with hardware like the fingerprint reader and a laptop made by somebody else mostly ibm the tallying system is just a piece of software that adds the votes according to the characteristics of the electoral process going on i e it is not the same for a recall vote than for a more complex election for city councilmen or deputies recall referendum despite claims to the contrary for the recall referendum the software was never tested or audited despite promises that there would be no transmissions between the voting machines and the servers during the day there were not only transmissions all day but in some cases more material was transmitted in one direction than the other there were supposed to be 120 hot audits the night of the recall only 30 of them took place curiously the vote against ch vez won in these although statistically it is not meaningful there was a cold audit a few days later under circumstances that leave a lot to be desired the fingerprint machines did not work well everywhere in some locations they were not used in others they were used by choice of the voter governor and regional elections the only improvement made was that the machines were connected to the network only at the end of the day however the totals were printed only after the transmission took place the fingerprint machines worked rather well in fact the suspicion is that the government used them as a real time exit poll which combined with the data from the recall referendum petition allowed them to know where they were doing well where they needed to go and get the voters out and where to concentrate resources the current elections a group of technical people was allowed this time to look at the machines and their software they first looked at the machines each vote becomes a file in the windows system with three dates and times which correspond to its creation modification and last save all three of these are erased and using a randomizer certified by microsoft each vote is saved in a different location of the memory in this manner all traces of the sequence of the votes was supposed to be lost however the technicians noticed that if you used the type of file system tools free in the internet that are used for file examination and recovery on an ntfs disk drive you could locate a file that had a fourth date and time stamp associated with each file and thus the sequence of voters could be known if you then correlated this with the orders in which people used the fingerprint capturing system then each vote could be exactly matched to each person of course the cne and smartmatic technicians and officers had always denied the possibility that this could be done last wednesday in a mock up vote in caracas in the presence of the international observers ten people voted and the technicians afterwards told each person which votes was his or hers and as they say the you know what hit the fan and the rest is now history even afterwards the president of the cne denied this possibility with virulence but for once political parties were united either the fingerprint machines were eliminated or they would all withdraw that is what is called a good way to abstain all or nothing the president of the cne offered then to disconnect the fingerprint syetm but under pressure from the observers and the fear that the world would know the truth about venezuelan elections recall three elections including the recall vote were done with this very faulty system forced the cne to yield the use of the fingerprint capturing machines on sunday some parties are still doubtful of participating now the technicians also checked and tested all other aspects of the software without finding any possibility of changing altering or manipulating the results this system is now activated by the use of three keys or passwords one of which is in the hands only of the opposition thus an opposition member has to be present to activate it tallying and transmitting the votes the technicians also looked at the process of printing tallying and transmitting the votes in the previous processes the tallying was performed and to the surprise of the technicians the machines not only send the totals but also send the contents of each one of the votes this may seem weird at first in venezuelan elections many parties may support a candidate and there are circuits like the one where i live where there are two candidates to vote for now according to venezuelan law a party may change the candidate it supports up to five days before an election by that time all voting machines are out in the field thus the program can no longer be changed thus all votes have to be transmitted so that if this happens events like a person voting twice for the same candidate do not take place once the votes are tallied the machine is made to print the totals for each candidate in a record that has a number 000 that certifies it as being pre transmission once this is printed the machine is connected to the network and the transmission is allowed to begin and after that everyone present can get a copy of the tally which will now have a different number 001 at this point the witnesses do a tally of the paper ballots in 45 of all voting centers another new feature that was not available in previous electoral processes the law says 100 of the paper ballots should be counted but this will not be done the rule of law is not the cne s strength can there be cheating electronically yes it is possible to be at a polling station with no opposition witness transmit first and then manipulate the results before the tally is printed this would obviously be the opposition s fault but there are 27 000 machines out there but the point is that the process has been cleaned checked and certified sufficiently that with the withdrawal of the fingerprint machines the process should be more transparent fairer and cleaner than it was a week ago the absence of the fingerprint machine has many advantages besides eliminating the possibility of reconstructing the sequence it removes the fear people have of the government knowing how they vote and losing their jobs contracts or otherwise being the victims of another tascon like list besides this the government will no longer have the real time exit poll that will allow it to mobilize voters where needed paying them and driving them to vote either they mobilize everyone or else of course there are thousands of fake id cards and corresponding voters out there and many other tricks in the electoral registry but we should not become like the chavistas that we want to win everything and hold all positions to claim that we have been cheated we have to vote the chavistas appear to be a majority at this time but they are not a happy majority they do not like the way problems in venezuela are not solved while chavez seems to be trying to solve everyone else s problem while neglecting ours both sides are not motivated so that if the opposition can have less abstention the chavismo may be blocked from grabbing total control of the national assembly this should be our goal at this time and with the removal of the fingerprint machines it is doable if in august s regional elections abstention was 80 you can bet it will be much larger with fewer local leaders to motivate the voters additionally the whole campaign has been lackluster for both sides thus next sunday i will be there i do not believe in any plan to have an alternative other than to have held a separate election and count how many we are nobody can count how many people go or not to church if you want to call for abstention do it while mix religion and politics some people do not even like to go to church or may not be seeing doing so it is simply too late in my opinion to start to improvise it is time to vote or not to vote there is still a little freedom in this country for this and for now you have a choice i have made mine i will vote and in the evening i will go help count and will make sure my copy of the tally sheet has a 001 at the bottom hopefully most of you will do the same no matter what your political ideas are it s called democracy and as long as it has a chance we should also give it a chance posted in venezuela leave a comment november 28 2005 electoral board has agreed not to use fingerprint machines in the upcoming electoral process to guarantee the secrecy of the vote posted in uncategorized leave a comment nyt on caracas el avila and much more november 27 2005 just imagine browsing through the travel section of the sunday new york times and finding an article on caracas with two recommendantions a block from my home i live a block away from an entrance the most popular one to el avila national park and the tarzilandia restaurant i must confess i have not been to tarzilandia in like 30 years read on posted in venezuela leave a comment another tale of unparalled corruption the swap of argentinean bonds november 27 2005 if the previous post describes a gift to the rich that i find somewhat obscene there are worse things going on which are incredibly obscene in the bond offering i described the terms are known everyone can put in an order and the national assembly approves the issue this contrasts with using the same procedure but assigning the bonds by having the ministry of finance choose by unknown procedures just a few banks to participate then these banks are giving the gift and we can not even know if the profit was 10 or 20 because no info is revealed on these deals but if they are anything like those of the current bonds offering we are talking tens of millions of dollars in profit handed out by the government to their friendly banks this deals clearly involve corruption in fact all of these more private deals have not been announced but have leaked slowly thru the financial system until someone in government has talked about it i talked earlier about the case of the structured notes whereby us 662 million in these notes was sold to five banks chosen by unknown procedures at the official exchange rate these banks turned around and sold the notes in us making a mint the fact that it was done privately raises suspicions that corruption was involved so does the fact that the transaction was revealed by the president of bandes who held a press conference to make clear that his institution had not sold them but that they had been sold to the ministry of finance who turned around and sold it to the banks well there were rumors of a similar transaction but with argentinean bonds you see venezuela bought us 950 million of that country s debt as a way of helping that country since there was little interest in purchasing them on the part of foreign investors fortunately for the venezuelan government emerging market bonds have kept rallying even as interest rates rise in the us and europe well the minister of finance former mathematician and now proud debt trader nelson merentes gloated that the government had sold some us 400 million of these bonds at a profit of us 40 million but you see the bonds were sold to two local banks that made a nice piece of change in the transaction as they paid them with bolivars at the official rate of exchange then they turned around and sold them in the international markets at a tidy profit in bolivars the question is once again why those two banks why the lack of transparency why not sell them in the international markets was there a profit in the end for the government obviously these transactions are doubly obscene as there seems to be some sort of corruption involved in the handpicking of the institution that these are sold to but i will let teodoro petkoff in his tal cual editorial give you his opinion swap by teodoro petkoff in tal cual a few days ago we described the shenanigans with the so called structured notes of bandes now is the turn of the operation with part of the argentinean bonds that the government acquired with those there was also an operation in the secondary market that happens to be of a suspicious nature much like those of the structured notes in the first two weeks of october some us 300 million in argentinean bonds were sold to two local banks they had been acquired by the venezuelan government with at a discount at 76 85 of their value and were sold also at discount somewhere between 80 and 85 did we win one keep reading at the time the official controlled exchange rate was bs 2 150 to the us with the discount the implicit price of the bonds was some bs 2300 per dollar where is the trick in the black market the price was hovering around bs 2600 and bs 2700 singing softly those us dollars left the country and maybe they went to the recently bankrupt refco where many venezuelans of the boli bourgeois the bolivarian bourgeoisie had placed their precious green bills for which there is no valid exchange control now comes the questions who pocketed the differential between the effective exchange rate bs 2300 per us and the black market exchange rate 2600 2700 supposing a difference of bs 300 between both prices the profit from the operation is around bs 900 million petkoff made a slight mistake it is actually 90 000 bolivars or us 34 million at the parallel rate he assumed how were the buyers selected it was not done publicly and transparently that is very clear there was no auction what is also clear is that the merentes method is much more opaque that the nobrega method because the latter at least covered appearances holding auctions for the placement of public debt bonds that the country would then issue do you have to be a professional dirty minded person to imagine that the beneficiaries chosen using fingermocracy for this operation split the profits with those that put them there if we recall the operation with the structured notes we now have that between the us 600 million of the former and the us 300 million the latter us 900 million were placed in the market the difference between the real or implicit price and the black market is around 3 000 million bs not bad once again petkoff is orders of 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