07-12-2009, 03:57 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Ruben, my information, from other Bolivians and South Americans, is that there are no biometric devices being used in this election as it is not ready to use yet and has just been discussed. It may or may not be used in future elections.
There is. I just vote a couple of hours ago. I have been registred. Some month ago they took me a picture of my face and all my fingerprints in a glass of a little machine, that transfered to a computer and registred, with all my data.
When I went to vote today, they have my registration, data and picture in a card. When I vote, they give me a little cardboard with my picture, place of voting and my ID number, as a certificate that I vote. Voting in Bolivia is a duty, not a right. You can be punished if not (they charge you money if you dont' show your certificate of voting)
http://www.lostiempos.com/ustedelige/coy...84665.html
There is a statement of Horatio Serpa, election observer from the OEA, sayin that the biomethrical registration that guide the bolivian election is "trustable". He was the same guy that avail Morale's election in 2005.
In july 2008, for the revocatory referendum, registred electoral citizens where barely 4.000.000 (four million), but for that time, oppositors say that was "inflated".
http://boliviasol.wordpress.com/2008/07/...n-bolivia/
Now, just a year latter, we are almost 5.200.000 (one million two hundred thousands increase in ONE YEAR.) Interesting, isnt it...????:mad:
First partial results are released by media. Morales is wining by nearly 65%, wich give him total control of both congress chambers (all congress, in fact). With The Tribunal of Constitutional Guarantees destroyed (he destroyed earlier), no legal force can stop absolute power of Morales in Bolivia. He is above any law now.
