Down and to the left, down and to the right, down and to the center… it’s all the same, or is it? Welcome to voting in Venezuela. Hanging chads ain’t got nothing on this electoral system.

The October 7 Presidential election in Venezuela is now just a few days away and streets are filled with propaganda telling people how to vote. This is because on voting day, Venezuelans will look at a screen, much like the one pictured above, with 39 little faces asking for their vote. Various parties have supported either current president Hugo Chavez Frias (12) or opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski (20) along with five other candidates.

Here lies the rub: several parties, namely Manos por Venezuela, Piedra, Vanguardia Bicentenaria Republicana and Cambio Pana retracted their support for Capriles late in the game, so if someone clicks on a Capriles face that happens to belong to one of those parties, the vote is null. Similarly, the party Unidad Democrática retracted its support for Capriles in favor of a lesser-known candidate, Reina Sequera.

Whether or not you think those parties intentionally supported then retracted in order to create confusion on election day depends on your conspiracy theorist tendencies. Thus far the principal opposition parties, Primero Justicia, Voluntad Popular and Un Nuevo Tiempo, all of whom are conveniently located on the lower-most row of the voting card, have done a pretty good job of telling voters which way to vote with posters and flyers and the National Electoral Commission (CNE) has posts throughout the country where people can go and get a preview of the cards they will see on election day. Which direction would you vote?