Chavez wins Venezuelan elections

The Venezuela Elections Commission president says preliminary results show President Hugo Chavez won recall vote.

Venezuelans turned out in such huge numbers to vote on whether to oust President Hugo Chavez that they overwhelmed election officials.

The sheer number of voters, believed to be a record for any election in Venezuela, in yesterday’s referendum, along with problems with electronic thumbprint ID machines, caused election officials to twice postpone the polls’ closing to midnight – eight hours later than first scheduled.