A big voter turnout for the presidential recall
election in Venezuela resulted in long lines and a painfully slow
voting process on Sunday. Venezuelans, including these in Caracas, used
computerized voting machines. Venezuela's opposition movement, crushed
by its failure to oust President Hugo Chávez in a recall referendum,
pressed ahead Tuesday with efforts to delegitimize the results of an
election it insisted was fraudulent. In an effort to calm opposition
concerns, former President Jimmy Carter said his Atlanta-based Carter
Center and the Organization of American States would on Wednesday begin
monitoring an audit by electoral authorities of a sampling of recall
results, as opposition groups are demanding. But Mr. Carter and the
O.A.S., observers for the referendum that was held Sunday,
insisted that electoral tallies showing a landslide win by Mr. Chávez
were accurate. [more
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