VENEZUELA / USA : Actor Sean Penn Campaigns For Chavez; Thumbprint Reader Alarms Some Voters.

http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/06/sean-penn-joins-venezuela-s-chavez-presidential-electoral-campaign-wagon

      This is hard to stomach...but actor Sean Penn lent his celebrity to President Hugo Chavez at a Sunday election rally.
      Still recovering after 3 cancer surgeries...Chavez faces the toughest re-election fight of his career...though most polls still give him a double digit lead over young opponent...former governor Henrique Capriles Radonski.
      Penn and Chavez are longtime friends.

   ALSO:  Election thumbprint reader technique...scares some...as invasion of privacy.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hokPiMU-U1TEVwPLqQKQ0wzH9iPw?docId=699f6d7a57854ee78ee3e61b979669c7