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Foes Press Audit of Venezuela Recall Vote [1]
['Juan Forero']
Date: 2004-08-18
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.
''We have no reason to doubt the integrity of the electoral system or the accuracy of the referendum results,'' Mr. Carter said at a news conference on Tuesday. ''There is no evidence of fraud, and any allegations of fraud are completely unwarranted.''
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