AP review of Venezuela opposition-provided vote tallies casts doubt on government’s election results
AP review of Venezuela opposition-provided vote tallies casts doubt on government’s election results
https://apnews.com/article/a625eb01979bc9cf5570d03242f198b1
“An AP analysis of vote tally sheets released Friday by Venezuela’s main opposition indicates that their candidate won significantly more votes in Sunday’s election than the government has claimed, casting serious doubt on the official declaration that President Nicolás Maduro won.”
“According to the calculations, the opposition’s Edmundo González received 6.89 million votes, nearly half a million more than the government says Maduro won with. The tabulations also show Maduro received 3.13 million votes from the tally sheets released.
By comparison, updated results from the governmental National Electoral Council made public Friday said that based on 96.87% of tally sheets, Maduro had 6.4 million votes and Gonzalez 5.3 million. National Electoral Council President Elvis Amoroso attributed the delay in updating results to “massive attacks” on the “technological infrastructure.”
Where are all the people calling the US gov't shills? Why aren't they all over this post like the other ones?
I'll admit I was wrong. I thought there was no way the vote had that large of a gap
The gap may actually be bigger, +5M expatriates were not allowed to vote.
I'd never really considered how voting works when you're living in another country but still have citizenship. Do you only get to vote in national elections?
This post is on .world, which is defederated from some of the largest instances that would be likely to do so
Even on .world they tried.
Calling the AP US government shills or the government shills shills?
I'll say it. The US government should keep its piehole shut and let the international media, like the AP, handle this one, the evidence is damning by all accounts and their contributions to any discourse on South American elections are a negative.
Nah, the US should take point on this. If your goal is to get nothing at all done, then fine let AP and international organizations handle it.
If you want accountability and consequences then the US will need to get involved.