2009-07-18
Caribbean-Latin America Honduras: computers seized with
'election results' pre-loaded 
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in Spanish; computer translation and then clean-up by me.Tegucigalpa --
The National Direction of Criminal Investigation confiscated computers
in the Presidential House in which were registered the supposed results
of the referendum on the reform of the Constitution that was planned by
former President Manuel Zelaya on last June 28, the day that he was
ousted.
The District attorney's Office will investigate now if it is a possible
crime of fraud and forgery of the documents, due to that some had been
filled with the data of the people that supposedly had participated in
the failed referendum. One of the public prosecutors that participated
in the operating one carried out yesterday showed to the mass media an
electoral minutes of the Technical Institute Luis Bogran, of
Tegucigalpa, in which the number of people is specified that
participated on the table 345, where 550 ballots were counted of which
450 were votes in favor of the proposal of Zelaya and 30 in against,
besides 20 blank votes and 30 nulos.
Cheez, it's like Chicago ...The seizure was carried out on the third
storey of the building annex to the Department of the Presidency that
had been rented the former home secretary, Enrique Flowers Throws.
The public prosecutor, Roberto Ramírez, declared that zone as the
"scene of the crime" and, although he wanted to need more details, said
that the found evidence would be able to characterize the crimes of
fraud, embezzlement, forgery of documents and abuse of authority.
Ramírez did not rule out that these computers were to be utilized in
the final count of the referendum.
"This group of some 45 computers, by the appearance that present, they
would be used for the launch of the supposed final results of the
quarter ballot box", he explained. The computers belonged to the
project 'Learns' of the Honduran Counsel of Science and Technology
directed towards rural schools. All of the computers had been lettered
with the name of the department for the one that would transmit the
information accompanied by a document with the headline: "Leaf of
test", that contained all the data of the centers of voting.
The public prosecutor also indicated that there was evidence of
documents, hardware and tests that could give light in the
investigations on the possible fraud.
During the last months of his mandate, Zelaya promoted the referendum
that had been called for last June 28, in which the population would be
asked consider the possibility of forming a Constituent assembly so as
to reform the constitution. The consultation was ruled "illegal" by the
Supreme Court of Justice and was also rejected, since the beginning, by
the opposition that alleged that the idea to reform the Constitution
responded to the interests of Zelaya to establish in the country the
indefinite reelection of the president.
Honduras: computers seized with 'election results'
pre-loaded 
