Smartmatic makes its SAES voting systems debut on contract with the Venezuelan government.
The recall refendum was a process seeking to revoke the mandate of President Hugo Chavez, but officially kept Chavez in power with 59.1 percent of the vote, versus 40.6 percent to those who saught his removal.
Pre-vote polls generally showed public sentiment in the opposite direction.
The Organization of American States and the Carter Center deemed the process transparent. But in the report of the Carter Center, despite its conclusion, various sections showed evidence of questionable processes as well as the frestriction of certain national observers and irregularities with the National Electoral Council (CNE), the body in charge of the elections.
Source:
1. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-17-fg-chavez17-story
2. https://www.smartmatic.com/blank/venezuelas-2004-recall-referendum/
1. Was the 2004 referendum really transparent?
2. Did Smartmatic arise from Chavez’s need to stay in power using a democratic process, to cause doubts about critics of the process and of the regime, and make the voters participants in their own destruction?
3. What else but voting software fraud could account for the pre-election polls running 60/40 against the regime, and the official election results exactly opposite?
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