By Luis Manuel Aguana
The responsibility for the fire at the CNE
warehouse in Mariches could be assigned with equal validity to both political
extremes. On the one hand, the regime had valid reasons to get rid of Tiby
Lucena's little lottery machines, which could be cited: a) the machines were no
longer useful to the CNE because its supplier and accomplice, the briefcase
company now a multinational company, Smartmatic International Corporation,
denounced its client, the CNE, as a perpetrator of fraud after the fraudulent
elections in Maduro on May 20, 2018, thus washing its face in order to
participate in large bids worldwide; b) Technically, it is more complicated to
sustain an infrastructure like that -and even more so if you want to continue
defrauding Venezuelans with the elections- without having the owner of the
technology, even though there has been technological transfer of systems and
equipment; c) The CNE personnel who know about the technical functioning of the
CNE have been disappearing little by little as the country is consistently
destroyed by the regime; d) If the regime falls -as it will sooner rather than
later- there will be physical evidence of the fraud committed with those
machines; and e) (which suits me better with these criminals) we will have to
enter into new negotiations with another supplier with whom we will have to
cook up a new, billion-dollar contract to renew the systems for the next
parliamentary elections, and to apply a new methodology of technical fraud,
prepared with Cuban systems technology developed in Havana. In this way the new
Rectors will have an excellent "incentive" in cash to face what comes
from fighting for the "democratic continuity" of the regime.
On the opposition side, the following could
be cited: a) delay (because in no way could they even imagine that they would
stop) the continuity of the fraud that has been systematically committed with
the automation of the vote. This would be the case of a radical opposition; b)
creating an environment of instability for the regime, by carrying out concrete
destructive actions of the means they have used to stay in power. This case
would apply to ultra-radical opposition groups; c) delaying the electoral schedule
in order to try to somehow prevent the parliamentary elections, which are the
ones the regime requires to finish taking over the National Assembly. This
would also be the case of a radical opposition; and d) an official opposition
that for incomprehensible reasons -or very understandable$$- still agrees with
the use of the machines in our electoral system -despite a Ruling of the TSJ
Legitimo that indicates the opposite- and agrees with the regime that they had
to leave them to continue the coexistence with others of better technology.
Both
sides would have reason to proceed with the fire. In fact, an ultra-radical
opposition group claimed credit for the fire a few hours later. However, that
appearance on YouTube was not very credible and rather confirms that the action
is the regime's invoice, just because of the name they gave to the movement. In
any case, after outlining these brief reasons, which even though very
superficial, it is very clear that who had more and better motives (and
opportunities) to burn that shed was the regime itself. Let's just remember the
fire in the East Tower of the Central Park. The regime loves that "modus operandi"...
And
indeed, the thesis according to which the regime is directly responsible for
this fire is corroborated by an investigation by ABC International of Spain
according to which "Maduro burns the voting machines in order to make ones
to his measure and win the elections" (see in Spanish news of ABC
Internacional, in https://www.abc.es/internacional/abci-maduro-quema-maquinas-votacion-para-fabricar-unas-medida-y-ganar-elecciones-202003112039_noticia.html). According to this research, "Faced with growing international
pressure to hold presidential elections, Maduro ordered ExClé (a company
linked to the regime that specializes in biometric identification and is
responsible for the database of Venezuelan fingerprints) to create new software from scratch. After about 15 months, the project
was still a failure. The security measures on the Smartmatic machine prevented
Quintero (former CNE's Director of Information Technology) and ExClé from running the altered software.
Maduro, with no patience or time to wait for the software according to his
needs, ordered from ExClé and Quintero a new machine that would support the
software they had been developing in Argentina. The smoke from the burning
machines is an unmistakable sign that ExClé already has the voting machine that
does support the software made to measure for the government”.
But let's not dwell on that too much longer.
The fact is that 49,408 machines have already been destroyed, if we are to
believe the "irreversible" Tiby Lucena's story: "In the voracious fire in Mariche, 582 computers belonging to the
Registry, 49,408 voting machines, 400 electronic ballots, 22,434 power
inverters, 127,000 ballots to be removed, and 49,327 integrated authentication
systems (fingerprint captors) were burned” (see in Spanish "Lucena:
49,408 voting machines were burned in the fire”, in https://www.panorama.com.ve/politicayeconomia/Lucena-En-el-incendio-se-quemaron-49.408-maquinas-de-votacion--20200308-0032.html). Veamos mejor lo que viene después.
Lucena confirms - or rather threatens - that
if "they think that this will stop the electoral processes they are very
wrong...", which confirms that very soon we will hear of other
negotiations for machines, fingerprint catchers and other implements (boards,
regulators, etc.) as well as the rest of the accessories necessary to make the
technological devices with which they have been making us fraud work for more
than 15 years, with the help of the official opposition.
Now,
let's do a little memory. In 2013 I made a note of the origin of the
captahuellas, emphasizing that in 2004 Jorge Rodriguez as President of the CNE
had modified our way of voting: "The act of voting that meant in the past
only presenting the laminated identity card at the tables at zero cost, became
a torture of a full day in endless queues that cost the nation an approximate
of 65 million dollars" (see in Spanish Three lies from the CNE: 1st
Footprints Catcher, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2013/04/tres-mentiras-del-cne-1ra-captahuellas.html).
The latter was confirmed by a
technical web publication, Bnamericas.com, on August 12, 2004. This pearl that
will go down in history for the millions that these criminals have prevaricated
with the Venezuelan elections: "The
CNE is paying Smartmatic, Cantv and local software firm Bitza US$63mn for its
voting platform and the Venezuelan press reported that the voter authentication
platform is valued at US$64mn, which is divided between Gilat and the
Chinese-US supplier of fingerprint readers Cogent. Spielman and Rohrstock
declined to comment on Gilat's participation, but revealed the contract would
be a significant part of this year's Latin American revenue” (see in Spanish Emergency
market looks promising for Gilat, en https://www.bnamericas.com/es/noticias/Mercado_de_emergencia_resulta_prometedor_para_Gilat). This is just to give Venezuelans an idea of the amounts in millions
of dollars that will begin to dance in the new CNE that Juan Guaidó will approve
jointly with the regime in the next few days in the National Assembly, as a
result of the replacement of machines that were lost in the Fila de Mariches
fire.
Regardless
of the culprit, which seems to have been fully identified, the big question
that we Venezuelans are now asking is whether the National Assembly and the
President in charge will pimp this new move by the regime and accept an outlay
of money to buy election machines, unacceptable in a country where children die
every day in the JM de los Ríos due to lack of medicine, food and medical care,
even more so considering that there is a sentence from the TSJ Legitimate in
exile, and that has been ignored olympically by the official opposition, which
ORDERS MANUAL votes (i.e. NO MACHINES) in Venezuela (see in Spanhis Supreme
Court of Justice Declares the Use of Automated Voting for Elections in
Venezuela VOID, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2018/06/tribunal-supremo-de-justicia-declara.html), It is therefore INACCEPTABLE that a single dollar should be spent on
voting machines, even if some technicians from the official opposition agree to
continue with this fraudulent electronic system, which is harmful to the
interests of Venezuelans.
On the
other hand, and as an additional sign of commitment to a clean and transparent
electoral system in Venezuela, the National Assembly has an obligation to the Venezuelan
people, starting with the destruction of the Mariches machines, to take
advantage of the opportunity to begin an in-depth modification of the Organic
Law of Electoral Processes (LOPE) to adjust it to the sentence of June 13,
2018, eliminating the electronic vote and scrutinies (that is, WITH MACHINES),
thus ensuring what they are preaching about free elections. I would like to see if that is true.
If parliamentary elections end up being held
in Venezuela, as indeed the "boss" of the official opposition Henry
Ramos Allup has planned with the regime, and he expressed this in the
opposition march on March 10: "In the face of a regime like this, we must
continue to unite and mobilize by exerting pressure to achieve free,
competitive parliamentary and presidential elections and with a new CNE
appointed by the only @AsambleaVE…” (ver Twitter de Henry Ramos Allup, en https://twitter.com/hramosallup/status/1237436104992751617), these must be MANUALS complying with the sentence of the Electoral
Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of 13 June 2018.
If we see the new Rectors of the CNE buying
machines to replace those that were burned in the fire, the official opposition
will not only prove to be the collaborator of the regime that we have already
denounced, but will now be associated to commit crimes with it, something that
some may reject, but that will give the definitive and irrefutable proof that
the Venezuelans will have to finish convincing themselves that they have to get
out of the two possible culprits of that fire, in order to recover the freedom
of Venezuela.
Caracas, March 13, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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