Audit of Venezuelan vote confirms Chavez victory
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CARACAS, VENEZUELA - An audit of ballots from 150 voting stations has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez won last week&#39;s recall referendum, reported the Organization of American States Saturday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - An audit of Venezuela's  recall referendum has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez won  fairly and found no evidence to support fraud charges,  observers and electoral council officials said on Saturday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's left-wing  President Hugo Chavez easily survived a referendum on whether  he should step down, and international observers on Monday  dismissed furious opposition charges of fraud.
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The United States said Tuesday the vote by Venezuela's people to allow President Hugo Chavez to complete his term marks an end to the Latin American nation's political crisis.
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An audit done by international observers has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez beat a recall referendum and that the vote was fair, an electoral council official said on Saturday.
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Venezuela's president urges dialogue  after the first results of an audit appear to confirm his referendum victory.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans overwhelmingly voted to keep President Hugo Chavez in office, dealing a crushing defeat to a splintered opposition and allowing the leftist leader to convert one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor."   Stunned opposition leaders, who have fought for years to oust Chavez, claimed fraud after results announced Monday by election officials showed nearly 60 percent of voters had said "no" to the question of whether he should leave office immediately.    Scattered protests erupted in Caracas, despite an endorsement of the outcome by former President Carter and the Organization of American States...
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CARACAS : An audit of last Sunday&#39;s recall vote in Venezuela, which favored keeping President Hugo Chavez in office, found no evidence of fraud, as the opposition had charged, electoral officials said.
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The results of an audit support the official vote count showing that President Hugo Chavez won this month&#39;s recall referendum in Venezuela, the head of the Organization of American States said Saturday.
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A completed count of ballots in Montenegro's referendum confirms a victory for pro-independence supporters.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Three Venezuelan government  ministers said on Monday that President Hugo Chavez had easily  survived a referendum on whether to recall him but the comments  conflicted with opposition hints that they had won.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's overwhelming victory in a recall referendum has left the opposition reeling, with some calling for protests and others for calm and a recount.    Chavez won 58 percent of the historic vote Sunday, not only surviving the effort to oust him but converting one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor" in his second term which ends in January 2007...
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Venezuelan officials say first results of an audit of the vote on President Chavez's rule show no fraud.
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Former President Jimmy Carter, who helped monitor Venezuela's recall referendum, endorsed on Monday returns showing that that President Hugo Chavez won the vote.
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Venezuelan election officials say they expect to announce Saturday, results of a partial audit of last Sunday&#39;s presidential recall referendum.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez appeared almost certain to have survived a referendum that sought to oust him, the head of the elections commission said Monday.    With 94 percent of the vote counted, 58 percent voted to keep Chavez in office, said Francisco Carrasquero, president of the election commission...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelans turned out early  and in large numbers on Sunday to vote in a historic referendum  that will either remove left-wing President Hugo Chavez from  office or give him a new mandate to govern for the next two  years.