Monday, April 03, 2006

How To Steal Elections and Influence People

How To Steal Elections and Influence People - the Hugo Chavez way.
MIT mathematicians using Benford's law have essentially proved Chavez stole the last election, in which Chavez faced recall. They calculated that the odds of the voter tabulations given happening without tampering were about 100:1.

Benford's Law is basically a way of looking at the number of things in lists. It's a statistical law that says in a random sample of tabulations, a certain percentage should begin with the number 1, a certain percentage with 2, etc. The Venezuelan election tallies were way out of line with what the law predicts.
And since Chavez's cronies determined which polling places Carter's observers could check out, Chavez controlled every aspect of the election, and Carter's group couldn't find fraud because they were limited to only those polling places that Chavez kept out of the rigged portion.

So, instead of free and fair elections, Venezuela got its dictatorship - complete with the rubber stamp of Jimmy Carter. And Hugo gets to influence people with his oil weapon, and makes friends with the likes of Castro, the Iranian mullahs, and the usual suspects of the far Left.

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