Breaking News Venezuela: How the "no" became a "si"

February 16, 5:51 PMForeign Policy ExaminerAimee Kligman

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Hugo Chavez is ecstatic. He finally won his referendum to remove term limits from the constitution, which will most likely enable him to remain in office for the rest of his life. Yesterday, Venezuelans went to the polls to vote on the referendum, and though there had been great opposition to the "SI" (yes vote), it seems that the "NO" lost by a landslide. The numbers are actually 54 percent to 46 percent, which would be simply impossible to reverse. 

Prior to the vote, Chavez ousted Spanish deputy Luis Herrero, a member of the European Parliament, as he was advocating control measures over the voting. He called Chavez a dictator, and questioned the Venezuelan National Electoral Council. This, of course, infuriated Chavez who said on Venezuelan TV that he could not let anyone disrupt the electoral process.

Which brings me to the photo above. This was received through my sources in Venezuela, and it's a very disturbing and damning evidence. One does not need to speak Spanish to realize that the same person is able to have 5 votes, with 5 different ID cards. This is endorsed by the very National Electoral Council that Herrero was talking about. The heading at the left translates as "Denunciation of independent solidarity". The small prints talks about a targeted operation for re-election which produced more than 500,000 multiple I.D's that would guarantee a minimum of 2 MILLION fraudulent votes.

And that is how the "no" became a "si".