AUDIT CONFIRMS CHAVEZ VICTORY
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An audit of last week&#39;s recall vote in Venezuela has found no evidence of fraud in the process that endorsed President Hugo Chavez as leader.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's opposition  leaders said on Wednesday they had given observers evidence of  electronic vote tampering that helped President Hugo Chavez win  Sunday's referendum, but they rejected an audit meant to clear  up their fraud charges.
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Venezuela&#39;s electoral authorities Friday ratified the results of a recent referendum that kept President Hugo Chavez in power.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter said an election that defeated an effort to recall Venezuela President Hugo Chavez was ``free and fair,&#39;&#39; according to a letter published in the Wall Street Journal.
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An audit by international observers supported official elections results that gave President Hugo Chavez a victory over a recall vote against him, the secretary-general of the Organisation of American States announced.
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The Audit Bureau of Circulations released the long-awaited results of its audit of the Tribune Company&#39;s scandal-tarred Newsday on Tuesday, confirming the magnitude of the discrepancies uncovered by the company&#39;s recent internal audit.
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CARACAS - Venezuelan leader Hugo ChÃ¡vez urged his foes to accept their defeat and move on yesterday, after an audit of last week&#39;s recall referendum confirmed the president&#39;s victory.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's left-wing  President Hugo Chavez on Monday declared victory in a historic  recall referendum on his rule, but his opponents vowed to  challenge vote results they rejected as a "gigantic fraud."
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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.    But former President Jimmy Carter and the Organization of American States endorsed the results of Sunday's vote, which saw one of the biggest turnouts in Venezuela's history, and urged everybody to accept the outcome...
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Venezuela&#39;s electoral authorities said Saturday an audit of the vote on President Hugo Chavez&#39;s rule found no proof of fraud.
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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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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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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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President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday praised his opponents for accepting defeat and said his overwhelming re-election victory shows Venezuela supports a radical turn toward socialism.
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An audit of Venezuela&#39;s referendum results has confirmed President Hugo Chavez won the poll fairly and found no evidence to support the opposition&#39;s claims
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A completed count of ballots in Montenegro's referendum confirms a victory for pro-independence supporters.
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The results of an audit support the official vote count showing that President Hugo Chavez won this month's recall referendum, the head of the Organization of American States said Saturday.