One of the reasons I’ve stopped regularly blogging about Venezuela is that I feel I’ve already shared everything that needed to be said. Whether it’s the falsehoods from Eva Golinger regarding tax status, credentials, or connections with the Chavista regime, the absence of records from Chávez’s favorite pollsters, the clear conflict of interest between Smartmatic and the Venezuelan government, or the familial ties among those peddling unfounded accusations and the regime led by the coup leader, I believe I’ve done my part.
Recently, I’ve noticed a spike in traffic to one of my websites from the Philippines. This piqued my curiosity, and I delved a bit deeper, only to find that the firm that has manipulated Chávez’s elections since 2004 in Venezuela, the same firm whose acquisition of Sequoia Voting Systems in the U.S. was contested due to an electoral debacle in Chicago, has been contracted for a whopping $150 million by the Philippine electoral commission to conduct the 2010 elections.
Filipinos will soon realize what kind of democracy is offered by the electronic voting firm of Hugo Chávez.