Chavez cheated. Really?

Jimmy Carter, call your office...

Investor's Business Daily reports that CIA cybersecurity experts know he fixed his 2004 recall referendum.

Two weeks ago, at a field hearing before the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in Orlando, Fla., CIA's Steve Stigall cited Venezuela, along with Macedonia and Ukraine, as examples of the risks of electronic voting.

Of course, most of us "knew" this at the time, and many had evidence:

While Carter was declaring Venezuela a democracy, the scam was not entirely unnoted. Mathematicians at universities like Yale, Johns Hopkins, MIT, University of Santa Cruz and in Venezuela all found a "very subtle algorithm" in the voting software that adjusted the ballot count in Chavez's favor, the Herald noted.

And like my call to correct the fraudulent ratification of the 16th Amendment, IBD wants this 5-year old screw up remedied.

Carter dismissed them arrogantly and a New York Times editorial abusively told the Venezuelan opposition to "grow up," and accept Chavez as president. They shouldn't. And neither should we.

That the U.S. now recognizes this vote was a fraud means we should fix our mistake. It's vital for democracy in this hemisphere.

Venezuela Posted by JohnGalt at March 26, 2009 4:49 PM