Miguel Octavio has a short item on the busy, busy, busy Gonzalez family, all 1,921 of whom were born on the same day 32 years ago in Maracaibo, all 1,921 of whom registered to vote on the same day, and most all 1,921 of whom registered at the same center.

My, my, my how long that line was! Check out Miguel’s heartwarming birthday wishes to the busy, busy Gonzalezes here.

It’s since been picked up by The San Jose Mercury News and The Miami Herald, via Knight-Ridder.

Knight-Ridder reports:

Venezuela’s records suggest vote fraud

MARACAIBO, Venezuela – It was the 32nd birthday of 1,921 Gonz????lezes registered to vote in the western state of Zulia on Wednesday. But instead of celebrating with balloons and cake, many Venezuelans have been shouting fraud.

Every one of these Gonz????lezes obtained their first government ID — and simultaneously registered to vote — in 2004, just before President Hugo Ch????vez defeated a recall referendum. And many of them registered on the same day, at the same registration center.

The case is ééone for the Guinness Book of Records,” said Roberto Ansuini, a former opposition representative on the National Electoral Council who stumbled on it while looking into the registry’s reliability. He said the most Gonz????lezes ever born on one day in one year in Venezuela is 89.

But fear not! Jimmah Cotta assured us all after the Recall Referendum of 2004 that Venezuela’s elections were free and fair, in fact freer and fairer than the elections in Florida. The only thing we had to fear was American elections, the Venezuelan ones were the ‘free and fair’ ones he said we should strive to emulate. Jimmah knows ever’thing.