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>Venezuelan fake news
Correction. CANTV appears to be Venezuelan government internet service provider
Moar from article
Smartmatic election 2017 Venezuela
>1 million more votes than voters
>Info released by president and cofounder Antonio Mugica after Smartmatic people out of country
>Why?
<Maduro didn't pay up
<Maduro then payed Smartmatic and media uproar dies down.
Alfredo Anzola cofounder of Smartmatic
>passionate supporter Hugo Chavez
>Anzola partnered with sister of the president of the Electoral Council
>president of the Electoral Council installed as Caracas Mayor after "overseeing" election
<caracas mayor and sister's father was
Head of the Socialist Party
Anzola co founder of Smartmatic suicided in plane crash
>in negotians for new contract with Electoral Council
>remember president of council is Caracas Mayor, son of former head of socialist party, and brother of his partner
>openly complained about terms of a new contract with the electoral council
>complaint about software changes
<Dies in a plane crash
<Chavez goons watched over death in hospital
September 5, 2017
How the Venezuelan Elections Were Rigged
By Brian G. Tomlinson
A few weeks ago on July 30 President Nicolas Maduro conjured up a vote to replace the National Assembly (67% of seats held by opposition representatives) with a new Constituent Assembly whose representatives would be handpicked by Maduro. The fix was in prior to the vote.
There was some subsequent, albeit brief, press about Smartmatic, the offshore Venezuelan company that has been providing hardware and software for computerized voting systems since 2004. The president and cofounder of the company, Antonio Mugica, told the press from his office in London that his company (((noticed irregularities))) in voting amounting to about one million ballots cast over the number of actual voters. Of course, this message was not released until Smartmatic people left Venezuela. Why would he stir this up? He had not been paid. The media uproar died down shortly thereafter, since he was finally paid by Maduro.
Mugica’s associate cofounder of Smartmatic, Alfredo Anzola, is worthy of mention.Anzola was a passionate supporter of former president Hugo Chavez.When Chavez faced his first recall vote in 2003, he needed to act quickly to ensure his Bolivarian revolution would continue. First, he stalled through his reconfigured Court stating that signatures collected for the recall vote were invalid. As Chavez continued his electoral kabuki dance,he engaged a company, SBC,to devise computerized voting systems to be used in national elections for the first time. SBC was comprised of Smartmatic, a Venezuelan-owned computer company based in Boca Raton, Florida and Sunnyvale, California; Bizta, a Venezuelan company of seven people, based in Caracas; and CANTV, the Chavez government-owned telecommunications company, with 28% ownership.
The de facto mayor of Caracas today, Jorge Rodriguez, happened to be the president of the CNE (Consejo Nacional Electoral – National Electoral Council) in 2003/2004 that presided over the first computerized election. He assumed the role of mayor after the current president Nicolas Maduro imprisoned the legitimate mayor of Caracas, Leopoldo Lopez, an outspoken critic. As an aside, Lopez was released shortly before the 30 July 17 election, and placed under house arrest. After the election results were announced, Lopez and another fellow critic were arrested by Maduro’s secret police, again in the middle of the night.
Anzola was such good friends with Chavez and Rodriguezthat his paths crossed often with his soon to become partner, Delcy Rodriguez, sister of Jorge. Their father, by the way, was the head of the Venezuelan Socialist partywhen he was killed in 1976.