The bloggers have come up with a real big one on voter fraud in Venezuela. Miguel explains it out very well here.

Venezuelan congressional elections are being held on Dec. 4 and a court has ruled in favor of stacking the vote today. See my post here. But that’s not the only problem.

Now Javier at Notiven has found thousands of Gonzalezes all born on the same day and the same state, 95% of them in Zulia. He’s got the documents to go see. Here is a translation below from the original on Notiven:

Can Venezuelan Electorate Authority explain this?
ID Express of the Gonzalez last name

Much has been said that venezuelan authorities created voters for the 2004 recall- referendum in order to put ahead President Ch????vez with ghost voters, but it has been very hard to prove. Here is my contribution.

A couple of days ago, El Nacional newspaper with a data link, and Miguel Octavio’s Blog mentioned that data from the Venezuelan electorate authority – CNE showed that there were 2,002 individuals with last name Gonzalez registered at the CNE whose date of birth was March 17th 1974, and 95% of these are registered in Zulia State.

My initiative consisted in reordering the data using their ID Numbers, and a second sort using the two last names to prove that something strange happened. Remember, according to the data, all these Gonzalez were born on the same date, all around Venezuela, but the way the ID’s are assigned in Venezuela, all of them were at the same place at the same time and you walk out knowing your number, it’s not assigned centrally.

I found that on 562 Gonzalez, their ID is one number more than the previous Gonzalez. Below you can see an example.

ID. Last Name, First Name Center Table State Municipality
22,154,292 GONZALEZ GONZALEZ JOSE RAFAEL 63065 3 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,293 GONZALEZ ROSA ELENA 63065 3 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,294 GONZALEZ EDILIA 63065 3 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,295 GONZALEZ GONZALEZ SARAY DEL C 63065 3 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,296 GONZALEZ JHONY ENRIQUE 63065 3 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,297 GONZALEZ CARMEN 63065 3 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,298 GONZALEZ VICENTE 63065 3 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,299 GONZALEZ IPUANA FRANCISCO 63065 3 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,300 GONZALEZ AMALIA 63060 1 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,301 GONZALEZ GONZALEZ KARINA 63060 1 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,302 GONZALEZ MARIA CRISTINA 63060 1 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,303 GONZALEZ IPUANA CELMIRA DEL C 63060 1 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,304 GONZALEZ JOSE ANTONIO 63060 1 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ
22,154,305 GONZALEZ IPUANA JORGE MIGUEL 63060 1 EDO. ZULIA MP. PAEZ

For the next group of data, it’s sorted by Last Name ( many people use their two last names ). Observe the second last name or maiden name: the difference between the first and second, and third and fourth group is an additional letter “U”, and once again, all these were born on the same date.

22,124,235 GONZ????LEZ EPIAY???? JAKELIN
22,151,184 GONZALEZ EPIAYU JUAN CARLOS
22,158,448 GONZALEZ EPIEYU ALBA LUZ
22,148,364 GONZALEZ EPIEYU ALICIA ROSITA
22,148,352 GONZALEZ EPIEYU BASILIA
22,176,701 GONZALEZ EPIEYU ELIZABETH
22,159,405 GONZALEZ EPIEYU MERCEDES
22,176,703 GONZALEZ EPIEYU PEDRO NEL
22,151,163 GONZALEZ EPIEYUU CRISPIN
22,151,287 GONZALEZ EPIEYUU HILDA
22,158,367 GONZALEZ EPIEYUU JOSE
22,158,820 GONZALEZ EPIEYUU ROSA BEATRIZ
22,176,663 GONZALEZ EPINAYU ALCIRA
22,176,668 GONZALEZ EPINAYU CARMEN
22,159,38 GONZALEZ EPINAYU MARIA ANTONIA
22,176,562 GONZALEZ EPINAYU MARIA EUSEBIA
22,151,202 GONZALEZ EPINAYU VICTOR JOSE
22,148,753 GONZALEZ EPINAYU VIRGINIA
22,159,383 GONZALEZ EPINAYU ZORAIDA
22,148,730 GONZALEZ EPINAYUU FRANCISCO

After the above, whatever your conclusion, be assured that something fishy happened; no wonder the CNE does not want their data and electorate books to be audited.

Javier C????ceres
28/oct/2005

UPDATE: Daniel Duquenal has a superb new analysis of this state of affairs here.