some individuals have disputed the center’s endorsement of the electoral process in the venezuelan recall referendum of 2004. fox news' doug schoen told michael barone of "u.s. news and world report", "our internal sourcing tells us that there was fraud in the venezuelan central commission. there are widespread reports of irregularities and evidence of fraud, many of them ably recorded by mary anastasia o'grady in "the wall street journal" last week. carter is untroubled by any of this, and declares that chavez won 'fair and square.'" the carter center looked into the allegations and released a paper and statistical analysis reaffirming their original conclusions.