Venezuela Awaits Result of Presidential Recall Vote Audit
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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  - Venezuelan electoral  officials on Sunday extended voting hours for the recall  referendum on the rule of left-wing President Hugo Chavez until  12 a.m. to accommodate massive voter turn out.
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A referendum is under way in Venezuela to decide if President Hugo Chavez should remain in office.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's left-wing  President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum on his divisive  rule in a vote backed on Monday by international observers who  found no "element of fraud."
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With record turnout, Venezuela's president survives a recall vote, but opponents claim fraud.
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Venezuela's electoral officials say an audit of the vote on President Hugo Chavez's rule shows it was fair.
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When the rule of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was reaffirmed in a landslide 58-42 percent victory on Sunday, the opposition who put the recall vote on the ballot was stunned. They obviously don&#39;t spend much time in the nation&#39;s poor neighborhoods.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 16 -- President Hugo Chavez was declared the winner of a national recall referendum by a substantial margin on Monday, and said he had won a fresh mandate for the highly centralized, populist style of government that has stirred fierce opposition at home and irritated the Bush administration.
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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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Venezuela&#39;s electoral authorities Friday ratified the results of a recent referendum that kept President Hugo Chavez in power.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Former U.S. President Jimmy  Carter said on Monday international observers agreed that  leftist President Hugo Chavez won an Aug. 15 recall referendum  fairly despite opposition concerns over fraud in the vote.
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Crime has soared in Venezuela. Yet President Hugo ChÃ¡vez appears headed to re-election on Sunday.
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The opposition's long and bitter campaign to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez finally came down to a recall referendum Sunday, with the leftist leader hoping a huge turnout among the poor will keep him in power.
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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 - 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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By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER     CARACAS, Venezuela  -- The high-tech thumbprint devices were meant to keep people from voting more than once in the recall ballot against President Hugo Chavez. Instead, they often wound up working fitfully - even when Chavez himself voted - contributing to huge delays in Sunday's historic referendum...
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CARACAS The Venezuelan electoral authorities on Thursday conducted a random audit of the referendum that confirmed President Hugo ChÃ¡vez&#39;s mandate, but the opposition rejected it and said the vote was a fraud.