Moho:
“Gringo. Its a Catalan language paper–you obviously didn’t even go to the website.”
I find four other sources that discuss the computer investigation, and you believe that I didn’t bother to check the Europapress.cat website to find out it is a Catalan language website with occasional articles in Spanish? I didn’t say the website was in Spanish. I said the article was. BTW, Europapress is a little more than just a “Catalan language tabloid.”
Interesting that you acknowledged that Spanish sources covered the story but you didn’t acknowledge that Honduran sources also had covered the story. Why did you not do so?
I admit to the possibility that someone opposed to Zelaya ginned up the computers. The computers should be submitted to Interpol for inspection and verification, just as the computers captured in the Raul Reyes incident were. Considering who Zelaya’s allies are, I would bet my money on this data being generated by Zelaya’s people.
Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, who coincidentally just came out in favor of amending his contry’s constitution to allow his continued reelection, has been accused of electoral fraud in the recent municipal elections. As I am not well-informed on this, at this stage I would say, “not proven,” but I would place my money on fraud.
After all consider the track record of their Big Daddy, Hugo Chávez. The ballots for the Honduras referendum that never took place were printed in Venezuela. There are a number of peer-reviewed academic studies that that point to fraud in the 2004 recall referendum in Venezuela.
1)“A Statistical Approach to Assess Referendum Results: the Venezuelan Recall Referendum 2004,” by Cordero and Márquez, appeared in 2006 in the International Statistical Review This is an abstract from a pay-by-subscription publication, but you can access the complete publication here .
Statistical Science, a publication of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
has accepted for publication three articles on the referendum.
2) “Analysis of the 2004 Venezuela Referendum: The Official Results Versus the Petition Signatures, Delfino and Salas.
3) “The 2004 Venezuelan presidential recall referendum: Discrepancies between exit polls and official results,” by Prado and Sansó.
4) “Quick anomaly detection by the Newcomb-Benford Law, with applications to electoral processes data from the USA, Puerto Rico and Venezuela,” by Pericchi and Torres.
When four peer-reviewed academic papers in mathematical statistics point to fraud in the 2004 Recall Referendum, that pretty well points to fraud.
Granted this does not proved that Zelaya’s people ginned up the computers, but when your most important ally is a proven fraudster, that does say something.
