Clandestine sources email allegedly preliminary results to the internation

[mom cat]

VENESUELA
Clandestine sources email allegedly preliminary results to the international media

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The private media, however, walk the streets in the opposition neighborhoods, surveying crowds and inciting them to dramatic scenes of impatience, harping all the time on the alleged incompetence of the voting process in general. For the cameras, they chant “We want to vote!” As usual the opposition-loaded private media continues to create their own stories at the expense of any real news.



Already with just minutes to spare before 3:00 p.m. international media began receiving emails from IP address 172.138.233.63 claiming to release preliminary results. In accordance with electoral regulations, VHeadline.com will not publish the information ... we do not give much credence to the information since tracing the sender IP to Virginia, USA!

Within the past hour, the CNE announced that they had recovered a recording of the CNE president announcing that Chavez had lost the election. Audio technicians were quickly able to declare the recording a fake but it is clear that radical elements had planned to broadcast it to announce a supposed victory for the opposition.

With the discovery and technical backup, it appears now that the opposition has created an even more embarrassing situation for itself, since an opposition official has publicly gone on the record admitting that the story is true. The private media has interview confused members of the opposition who claim that they voted Yes, but that the machine "ate" their vote, and printed "No." When asked for proof, they responded that they torn them up and thrown them away...



The same sad story reappears in opposition reporting from San Francisco (California) where members of the opposition have advised their supporters to refuse to provide documentary proof of legal residence in the USA). The idea is that given the fact they will consequently be denied the opportunity to vote, it will implant an image of repression of voter’s rights and ultimately to discolor a projected Chavez victory.



http://www.vheadline.net/readnews.asp?id=22438

[Ediacara]

1. The plot thickens

And the Independent was duped!

[seventhson]

2. I think the Independent reporter is a spook

but then again I think a lot of disinformationists are.

[Rose Siding]

3. That's a hoax, according to El Universal

Video parodying CNE's president was not intended to be used in a plot


Journalist Fausto Malavé said a video parodying Francisco Carrasquero, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), was not intended to be used in any conspiracy.

Malavé said he was part of the team that produced the video, but emphasized it was made with an aim different from using it in a plot.

He said he was surprised by CNE's late reaction, as street vendors have been selling the video for two months.

Malavé said it is evident that the video is an assembling and disqualified CNE directors' attitude of finding "conspiracies everywhere."

http://www.eluniversal.com/2004/08/15/en_revo_art_15A483841.shtml