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...duped by people offering absentee ballots as "una nueva forma de votar" -- a new way to vote. "She said, 'Sign. I'll do the rest,' " recalls Carmen Silva, 55. "I signed. I didn't know for who or what." Others were encouraged to sign for members of their families. Zoraida Rodriguez voted on behalf of her husband, who was in jail. Nineteen ballots, according to the Inquirer, appear to have been outright forgeries. Among them are those of Rose Fellman and Elpiniki Kousis, residents of Nevada and Greece, respectively, both of whose signatures appear on absentee ballots for Stinson...
...worms') paradise, as Castroites contemptuously call it. Refugee Manuel Candelaria, his wife and parents lost their home in Havana, their store and an apartment building they owned. "Somebody came to the house last week and said a boat was coming for us," said Manuel's wife Zoraida. "They inventoried everything. Then a few nights later at 2 a.m., they came and said our boat had come and we must go. We had to leave everything." Others were too nervous to talk. "The G-2 is everywhere," whispered one Cuban...
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