Cenk Uygur
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Anti-Maduro Birthers Now A Thing In Venezuela
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August 1, 2017
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2:43Now PlayingDoes Nicolas Maduro even exist? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down. Brought to you by An Inconvenient SequelTruth To Power
“After months of devastating shortages, deadly protests and mounting chaos, many a Venezuelan has wished President Nicolas Maduro never existed.
The computer system handling Sunday's controversial elections to his powerful new constitution re-writing body appears to feel the same way.
When Maduro scanned his ID card as he cast his ballot -- the first Venezuelan to do so -- the screen spit out the words, "This person does not exist or the ID was canceled."
The message, displayed on the screen of a poll worker's cell phone, was captured by TV cameras and soon went viral online.
The ID card in question is the "fatherland card" introduced by Maduro's socialist government to buy subsidized food and access other social programs.
As Maduro delivered a speech at the polling station, he paused to theatrically whip out his card.
"Let's check my fatherland card so it will be permanently registered that I came to vote, and so my fatherland card will be engraved with it for life: that I voted the historic day of the constituent assembly," he said.
He then presented his card's bar code to be read with a scanner.
"Did it read it?" he asked the young poll worker.”
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Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. A young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations.(American Heritage Dictionary)
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