Former Director of the Program for the Americas of the Carter Center: Venezuela vote fraud

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Former Director of the Program for the Americas of the Carter Center
Jennifer McCoy: "The red spots of the PSUV are a mechanism of social control"
By: Digital Panorama | Monday, 03/19/2018 04:31 PM



03-19-18.-Jennifer McCoy, former director of the Program for the Americas of the Carter Center, a key figure in the Negotiation and Agreement Table held by the opposition and the Government between 2002 and 2004, believes that the current political crisis is resolved with the "negotiation".

In an interview offered to the Zulia newspaper Panorama, he said that for presidential elections on May 20, "more guarantees" and "control" are needed.

For the professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, USA, who has been away from Venezuela for a year and a half, but is still following closely what is happening, the Government set aside its responsibility to "ensure the physical integrity of citizens and the opposition, not being united."

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DP: The electoral path in the terms that are raised at this moment in Venezuela, do you think that more electoral guarantees should be granted?

JM: Of course they need more guarantees to have elections with integrity and to regain the trust of the voters in the process. It is good that they have agreed to return to the voting centers of 2015, to ensure equity in the media, and to invite international observers, but they are still missing. What has not received enough attention are the red dots (of the PSUV), which now serve as mechanisms of social control, linking party registration with the vote and with food through the Clap. They need to eliminate or regulate those points.

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https://www.aporrea.org/ideologia/n322507.html

The "red spots" are PSUV stations inside voting centers, where the scam begins. The voter brings in the Carnet de la Patria (Chavista Loyalty Card) to the "red spot", signs in. They get a receipt from a previous Chavist voter. Goes to vote for the Chavista. Drops first receipt into the voting box. Brings the second time stamped receipt back to the "red spot", where the vote is validated (for the Chavista). The voter then gets their bribe (food box, medicine). The next "red spot" voter gets the new receipt and the scam is perpetuated.

Very tidy. Out in the open, this scam. Very brazen. Why bother with elections at all, one has to wonder? Either you vote for Chavismo,
or you don't eat.