{"id":107886,"date":"2020-12-05T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107886"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:23:21","slug":"107886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107886","title":{"rendered":"And We Think Our Election Was Wierd?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is from the end of November, regarding the Venezuelan election and some strange thing that happened.<\/p>\n

Thousands of voting machines were burned in Venezuela. The info is sketchy:\u00a0 https:\/\/freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/3910667\/posts<\/a><\/p>\n

There is more at this BBC article link:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-51800316?fbclid=IwAR2a3E0U5RezCFTCmIy1jGDUXLpcCzJ3nvR9FNMTR2EPwis8ufn3rPTk3So<\/a><\/p>\n

Apparently, it was a warehouse accident.<\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 The electoral council in Venezuela says a fire in its main warehouse near the capital, Caracas, has destroyed most of the voting machines held there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almost 50,000 voting machines and 582 computers used in the country’s elections went up in flames, electoral council chief Tibisay Lucena said.<\/p>\n

She did not say if parliamentary elections due later this year could be affected by the loss of the machines. She also asked prosecutors to investigate the cause of the fire. – article<\/p>\n

There is more at the link. It is odd, and almost seems deliberate: why now, when the date for the next election has not yet been set. Is this supposed to make the opposition leader Guaido look bad? Or is it meant to scare people away from voting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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