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	Venezuelan presidential election, 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the December 6, 1998 Venezuelan presidential election, Hugo Chávez was elected to his first term as President of Venezuela with the largest percentage of the popular vote (56.2%) in four decades.
		Chávez condemned the traditional two-party system that had dominated Venezuelan politics from 1958 up until the catastrophic riots and turmoil of 1992–1993.
		Chávez won the Carter Center-endorsed election on December 6, 1998 with 56.2% of the vote.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_election,_1998 (294 words)

	Venezuelan presidential election, 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A presidential election was held in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on 30 July 2000.
		As a result of this election, incumbent President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (originally voted in under the previous constitution in 1998; see 1998 election results) was elected to a second six-year term.
		On 8 June 2004 it was announced that the result of this election would be put to a recall referendum on 15 August.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_election,_2000 (166 words)

	Hugo Chávez - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Venezuelan society under Chávez has seen sweeping and radical shifts in social policy, moving away from the government officially embracing a free market economy and neoliberal reform principles and towards quasi-socialist income redistribution and social welfare programs.
		Chávez took the presidential oath of office on February 2, 1999 with a mandate to reverse Venezuela's economic decline and strengthen the role of the state in ensuring distributive social justice.
		The Carter Center monitored the 2000 presidential election; their report on that election stated that, due to lack of transparency, CNE partiality, and political pressure from the Chávez government that resulted in unconstitutionally early elections, it was unable to validate the official CNE results.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hugo_Chavez (8929 words)

	Encyclopedia: Venezuelan presidential election, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A parliamentary election was held in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on 30 July 2000.
		A presidential election was held in the Republic of Venezuela on 6 December 1998.
		In this election, Hugo Chávez was elected to his first term as President of Venezuela with the largest percentage of the popular vote (56.2%) in four decades.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Venezuelan-presidential-election,-2000 (1416 words)

	Venezuela
		According to international observers, the year's general elections were generally free and fair; however, there were localized technical problems and irregularities, and the process leading to the elections was a controversial and difficult one.
		Elections were scheduled by the ANC for May 28 for every elected office in the country; more than 35,000 candidates ran for some 6,000 offices.
		However, leading presidential challenger Francisco Arias Cardenas criticized the decision of the CLN to split the elections and hold the first component on July 30, a decision that he alleged was intended to put him at a disadvantage.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/835.htm (14609 words)

	Venezuelan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Venezuelan
		Against a background of growing economic problems, the 1984 general election was contested by 20 parties and 13 presidential candidates.
		Elections held in December were boycotted by the main opposition groups.
		Despite a shrinking economy and rising unemployment, he was re-elected in July 2000 for a six-year term as president, pledging to redistribute oil wealth from the rich to the poor.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Venezuelan (1228 words)

	How Computers Can Steal Your Vote
		Iowa: According to The Wall Street Journal, in the 2000 general election, an optical-scan machine in Allamakee County, Iowa, was fed 300 ballots and reported 4 million votes.
		Election officials said the vanishing votes were the result of a faulty computer program.
		County Elections Supervisor David Leahy said he was concerned because the computer did not raise any red flags; humans had to spot the error.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2004/book_reviews/3107blackbx_voting.html (2429 words)

	Hugo Chávez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chávez went on to win the Carter Center-endorsed 1998 presidential election on December 6, 1998 with 56.2% of the vote (Guillermoprieto 2005).
		As a result, in April 1999 Chávez was forced to set his eyes upon the one Venezuelan institution that was costly for the government but did little for the systematic social development that Chávez desired: the military.
		Coup attempt of 1992 – Presidential election of 1998 – Presidential election of 2000 – Coup attempt of 2002 – Recall referendum of 2004 –
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Ch%c3%a1vez (8149 words)

	GREG PALAST / Journalist who investigated the 2000 electoral fraud in the USA. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jeb Bush arranged to steal the election in 2000 for his brother, and is keeping it stolen for his own re-election.
		Election 2000 is not old news; it’s what happening on Tuesday.
		The NAACP is sending hundreds of students across the state to supervise the election and to educate people, telling voters that they have the right to ask for a provisional ballot if their name is in the list of purged criminals.
	www.gregpalast.com /detail.cfm?artid=182&row=2 (735 words)

	Democracy (Harpers.org)
		An investigation of Florida ballots found that at least 445 felons voted illegally in the presidential election, mostly in Palm Beach and Duval counties; many were registered Democrats, including 7 kidnappers, 16 rapists, 45 killers, 56 drug dealers, and 62 robbers.
		Thailand's election commission ordered revotes in 62 districts because of widespread cheating, though it confirmed the overall victory of the Thai Love Thai party, whose leader, the new prime minister, is under investigation for corruption.
		Howard Dean, a Democratic presidential candidate, announced that he had raised almost $9 million, an achievement that shocked his opponents, and it was noted that he was now a serious candidate.
	www.harpers.org /Democracy.html (4736 words)

	Venezuelan presidential election, 2000 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Venezuelan presidential election, 2000 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Venezuelan presidential election, 2000 contains research on
		Venezuelan presidential election, 2000, Results, See also, Elections in Venezuela and 2000 elections.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Venezuelan_presidential_election,_2000 (153 words)

	Was the election in Venezuela stolen? \| www.vcrisis.com
		Interestingly, Krugman argued in his alarmist column that exit polls should be used as a check on the honesty of the results on election day, to see whether the fix was in.
		His report, and other defenses of the election results were summarized in a lengthy article in the current issue of The Economist, written by a Carter Center staffer, Jennifer McCoy.
		And two Venezuelan professors, including one from MIT, and another from Harvard have issued their own report, concluding that there is at least a 99% chance that the election result was a fraud.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200409081135 (1513 words)

	CNN.com - World - Bitter race underscores Venezuelan presidential election - July 28,2000
		CARACAS (CNN) -- Venezuelans vote in general elections Sunday after a rough-and-tumble political campaign that has pitted two main presidential candidates -- President Hugo Chavez and former governor Francisco Arias Cardenas.
		Eight years ago both candidates were left-leaning army officers who staged a failed 1992 military coup that Chavez led.
		Last December, as part of that process, Venezuelans approved a new constitution that abolished the upper house of parliament, extended the president's term from five to six years and allowed him to run for re-election.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/07/28/venezuela.elections (653 words)

	The International Press on the 2004 U.S. Elections - Worldpress.org
		In 2000, Bush won the support of nearly 80 per cent of Muslim American voters, and this shift could make a difference in a number of swing states, where the competition is toughest between Bush and Kerry.
		The contested nature of the last election in 2000 -- when absentee ballots by Americans living abroad helped determine the crucial result for Florida -- has also encouraged people to use their right to vote.
		Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez put it most bluntly when he told Al-Jazeera news service “we do not prefer a certain candidate but no president can be worse than Mr.
	www.worldpress.org /Americas/1865.cfm (8420 words)

	Network America News
		Subtitle paragraphs, in italics in the original: “American elections are a fraud and a scam" is the stern verdict of Pat Buchanan and a deeply disturbing comment on the state of democracy in America.
		Some officials concerned with elections have pondered the unthinkable; namely, the stealing of a presidential election by computer fraud in the metropolitan areas of key states.
		The indifference of election officials, the people ultimately responsible for the integrity of the elections, proves a point made by a former president of the University of Chicago, Robert M. Hutchins, who said, “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.
	www.votefraud.org /News/2000/10/102700.html (2062 words)

	Colombia
		Similar attempts at intimidation by illegal armed actors, including killings and kidnapings, threatened to impair local elections scheduled for October; however, the elections were generally peaceful.
		Four Venezuelans arrested in May 1999 in the course of a military antiguerrilla operation who subsequently claimed that the 3rd army Special Forces Battalion tortured and inflicted other cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment against them were remanded to the custody of the Venezuelan Embassy and finally allowed to return to Venezuela.
		The Venezuelan Government also asked for an investigation in relation to five other persons who were with these four men at the time of their capture.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/741.htm (18520 words)

	Bethel College News: Sociology professor to report on Venezuelan election assistance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Her lecture, entitled “Peacebuilding through election assistance in unstable democracies: Observation from the Venezuelan process,” is free and open to the public.
		Hart was one of 150 election observers from the United States and Latin America who played a role in the two-part recall process.
		Election assistance and democratization is currently a part of the curriculum in Hart’s International Conflict Management course at Bethel College.
	www.bethelks.edu /news/archives/002063.php (609 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		Extention of Presidential term from five to six-years with possible consecutive re-election once, new impeachment mechanism, and limits on emergency powers.
		The Venezuelan economy shrank 9.5% in the first half of 1999 and unemployment surged to 18% up from 11% at the beginning of 1999.
		After the approval of the new Constitution, new presidential and legislative elections were held on July 30, 2000.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/americas/venezuela4.html (216 words)

	The Devil's Excrement
		And, from the institutional point of view, not opening the boxes was the most dangerous gesture for democracy: a democratic institution in charge of the elections of a country must, before anything, provide the population with the certainty that the system works and that is right and transparent.
		Thus, Venezuelan electoral results did follow well Benford’s law in 2000, which needed to be established and seems to be established by this comparison.
		However, this trend stopped between 2000 and 2004, despite the fact that the time span between the two was much longer.
	blogs.salon.com /0001330/categories/rrModels (8099 words)

	Encyclopedia: Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Venezuelan coat of arms File links The following pages link to this file: Venezuela List of Venezuelans List of national coats of arms Categories: Images with unknown source...
		The Venezuelan bolÃvar (ISO currency code: VEB; locally abbreviated as Bs) is the currency of Venezuela.
		Off the Venezuelan coast are also found the Caribbean states of Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Venezuela (1561 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Chavez claims referendum victory
		There was a large turnout for the vote, in which Venezuelans were asked whether Mr Chavez should serve out the remaining two-and-a-half years of his term.
		Venezuela was polarised by the surprise victory of Mr Chavez - Venezuela's first president from an indigenous heritage - in presidential elections in 1998.
		Despite the country's oil wealth, 80% of Venezuelans are poor but Mr Chavez has won the hearts of many with extensive school and health programmes, analysts say.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3569012.stm (642 words)

	CNN.com - World - Chavez wins re-election in Venezuela - July 30,2000
		Thousands of Venezuelans waited in lines for hours in a hot tropical sun to cast ballots filled with dozens of candidates and parties.
		It abolished the senate, extended presidential terms from five to six years, and allowed for presidential re-elections.
		About 50 percent of Venezuelans work in the informal sector, where there are no benefits or social safety nets.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/07/30/venezuela.elections.02 (1251 words)

	Feature: The Carter Center and the 2004 Venezuela Elections
		Venezuelan citizens verified the authenticity of their signatures in the original petition calling for a recall referendum.
		Venezuela is on the northern coast of South America and is one of the primary sources of oil to the United States.
		In the new constitution passed in 1999, Venezuelans put in this unprecedented provision for a recall on the president and every other elected official, which could happen halfway through their terms.
	www.cartercenter.org /doc1690.htm (1238 words)

	Saint Joseph's University HawkEye: October 31, 2000
		Eichel won the national Sigma Delta Chi Award for his coverage of the 1984 presidential campaign and shared a National Headliners Award in 1985 for his role in the Inquirer's coverage of the MOVE disaster.
		More than most elections, this one seems to be about independent voters choosing between two flawed personalities, one whom they may not like, the other whom they may not respect.
		Sponsoring "Election 2000" are Saint Joseph's Department of Political Science, Department of Economics, American Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences' Dean's Office, and Sesquicentennial Committee.
	www.sju.edu /ucomm/archives/2000/october/hawkeye103100.htm (1385 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		There was a subsequent referendum to approve a new constitution, and in 2000, another nationwide election for local, state and national offices, with Mr.
		As in all previous elections, paper ballots were retained under military guard.
		When local citizens or foreigners disapprove of a political decision made in free and fair elections, the only legitimate recourse is to honor the decision, cooperate whenever possible, and promote future leadership changes through democratic means.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra?id=110005518 (730 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that the county should switch to optical scanners that use paper ballots, based on declining voter confidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and quadrupled election day labor costs.
		I contend the ruling was that election rules concerning how to count ballots and what could be considered a properly cast ballot hence a vote could not be changed after the ballots were cast.
		In a case with echoes of the disputed 2000 presidential election, a coalition of groups is suing Florida's Department of State over a rule preventing local elections supervisors in 15 counties from setting up manual recount procedures for touch-screen voting systems put in place since then.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=floridarecount (4849 words)

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