Carter Center Report on an Analysis of the Representativeness of the Second Audit Sample, and the Correlation between Petition Signers and t...

From today's Por Mi Madre, the daily political gossip page in TalCual, Final poll The final tracking poll for Consultores 21, car...

In Spanish the phrase "Carta Magna" is just a synonym for "constitution," so most Venezuelans probably don't know th...

Reposted from El Informador de Barquisimeto A Militarist Vision by Pompeyo Marquez, Sept. 3, 2004 Translated by FT I have argued ...

Hausmann and Rigobon's argument about the non-randomness of the CNE cold-audit sample is based on something they've called the ...

Thanks to Miguel Octavio for linking to this astonishing New York Times article on Benford's law. Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his ma...

I've been reading and re-reading Hausmann and Rigobon's piece to try to find holes in it. I'm finding it hard. The most obvi...

Hausmann and Rigobon's paper on the evidence of fraud in the Recall Referendum makes three basic arguments. Instant reaction. 1.T...

Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto Rigobon must be the two most respected and accomplished Venezuelan academics out there. You don't get te...

One of the most interesting articles I got to write when I lived in Venezuela grew from a meeting I had with five privileged white men who h...

I'm not about to tell the CD to give up its fraud claims until they're satisfied they know what happened on August 15th. But as they...

Say you witness an electoral event...your side loses, you're mad, you think there was fraud. What does it take to demonstrate that there...

Just to clarify my last few posts: am I sure there was no fraud on August 15th? No, of course not! How could I be? I am sure that there i...

I. Where's our William Hague? Where are our pianos? There's no particular reason for most Venezuelans to know who William Hague i...

by Gustavo Soto-Rosa I want to warn you, first off, that I'm a die hard comeflor, but at the same time I am very distrustful. Wh...

Whether or not there was fraud is one question. The political dynamics of the Fraud-claim are something else altogether. Who gains from ...

One week ago, I pulled the plug on the simple "comments" feature due to the turn the discussions had taken...straight into the gut...

Readers of this blog know I've had a very hard time trying to piece together what happened during and after the August 15th referendum. ...

Teodoro Petkoff does. This is the Aug. 25th editorial in TalCual Sumate's statement, published yesterday, gives rise to an urgent...

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." I show this sentence to Kan...

Because, to cite Sumate's Aug. 23rd statement... Sumate has received hundreds of reports of fraud from citizens, civil associations ...

From my inbox... You know, when I first saw the CNE results, I assumed fraud. The weird hour, the huge spread, and the strange look on ...

The Carter Center has maintained an office and a director in Venezuela since September 2002, at the invitation of the Government of Venez...