UNASUR witnessed irregularities using fingerprint readers

[joshcryer]

Google translate:

Unasur witnessed irregularities using fingerprint readers
A Brazilian delegation was part of the mission that UNASUR sent to Venezuela to accompany the presidential elections of April 14 and found the irregular operation of the fingerprint scanners in school polling station Santa Rosa de Lima, in Baruta, Miranda.

The daughter of an elderly woman who came to vote mistakenly put her thumb in a machine fingerprint reader. This immediately enabled the system to activate the vote although that should not happen because the verification process is done with the identification number of her mother. The woman reported the error to operators, witnesses and board members. Just then, two companions of Unasur, Brazilians Felipe Matias Gimenez and Goulat, were watching the process. María Elena Arnal, witnessed the Mesa Unit in the center and recalls that immediately they began to test if it was the same with the fingerprint readers of the other 15 polling stations in the school there.

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"This was repeated on eight more tables where different voters were allowed to vote by placing their fingerprints without being the person carrying the card that was introduced," summarizes the report.

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Participants recorded videos and took pictures of the incident and expressed in the record that the evidence are the order of the authorities to verify the irregularity. The PSUV witness declined to affix his signature and withdrew before the audit. "Witnesses of UNASUR also put his finger and could not believe it. At that time all the machines were activated."

You can see a PDF scan of the actas with the UNASUR statement here: http://www.el-nacional.com/politica/Acta-Santa-Rosa-Lima-irregularidades_NACFIL20130418_0001.pdf

It's cut and dry. The fingerprint readers weren't verifying the card matched the fingerprint, proving, once again, what I have said all along about the fingerprint readers. Even the Carter Center had reservations about the pre-vote identity checking process. Indeed, from my point of view, this is very bad, because an operator of the machine would trust the machine more than the cedula. They would swipe it, and the person would vote, and the operator might not even look at it to verify the face matches. An operator could even get so complacent as to allow the card to be swiped by the individual themselves.

Now we know why UNASUR pressured for the recount to happen.

Note: this could have been used to Capriles' favor, too, because Baruta is where he was mayor. Of course, that begs the question why the PSUV witness refused to sign the actas and acknowledge the event.

[naaman fletcher]

1. But, but...

Jimmy Carter!

[joshcryer]

2. I expect the Carter Center to give a balanced report.

I was pleased with their last one and this time around it will be interesting to see what they have to say.

[naaman fletcher]

3. I agree

I think we won't be hearing much about the carter center on this forum after their next report.