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Electoral Irregularities under Chavismo: A Tally

By Javier Corrales

An ongoing effort to catalog electoral infractions in Venezuela since 1999.

This is a draft document and part of an ongoing project on electoral irregularities in Venezuela.  Please help improve this document by reporting any errors and omissions to jcorrales@amherst.edu. 

Just days ahead of the first post-Chávez election since 1998, Venezuela’s opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles, has made electoral irregularities a major issue in his campaign.  Claiming that Venezuela’s leading electoral body, the Consejo Nacional Electoral...

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