MADRID, Spain.- A review of more than 23,000 voting records collected by the opposition suggests that Edmundo González, Venezuela’s opposition candidate, likely received more than twice as many votes as President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 election, reported The Washington Post this Monday.
The outlet extracted and analyzed data from 23,720 voting records — a sample that represents almost 80 percent of voting machines nationwide — that were scanned and published online by the opposition. Of those, Edmundo González obtained 67 percent of the votes compared to 30 percent of the opposition. Ripe.
“These minutes represent 79 percent of the voting tables vote used on July 28. Even if Maduro won all the remaining 21 percent votes, assuming a similar turnout, he would still be more than 1.5 million votes behind Gonzalez,” the article reads. The Washington Post.
This conclusion, which reflects the results of independent exit polls and similar analyses, provides further evidence of electoral fraud committed by Maduro and Chavismo.
The newspaper analyzed only those minutes that included valid, scannable QR codes that could provide data, which accounted for about 97 percent of the minutes published by the opposition. To corroborate the authenticity of the minutes published online, a reporter from The Washington Post reviewed hundreds of physical records, which are being stored by the opposition in cardboard boxes in secret locations across the country to evade possible government repression.
Although independent confirmation could not be obtained that the physical tally sheets held by the opposition were authentic, details on them indicate that they were produced at polling stations. The data printed on them matched the data encrypted in their QR codes. Each was signed by multiple people, some of whom were The Washington Post interviewed.
The tally sheets and their scans showed blue lines that matched those on the paper used by the electoral council’s machines. The polling stations identified in the tally sheets are all real, the outlet said.
The news agency Associated Press also conducted a similar analysis and came to the same conclusions. An AP analysis of voting records released Friday by Venezuela’s main opposition indicates that its candidate won significantly more votes in Sunday’s election than the government has claimed, seriously casting doubt on the official declaration that President Nicolás Maduro won.
AP processed nearly 24,000 images of tally sheets, representing results from 79 percent of voting machines. Each tally sheet encoded vote counts in QR codes, which AP decoded and analyzed programmatically, resulting in tabulations of 10.26 million votes. According to the calculations, opposition candidate Edmundo González received 6.89 million votes, nearly half a million more than the government says Maduro got. The tabulations also show Maduro received 3.13 million votes from the published tally sheets.
In comparison, the updated results of the National Electoral Council Government polls, made public on Friday, indicated that, based on 96.87% of the votes, Maduro had 6.4 million votes and Gonzalez 5.3 million.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, controlled by Maduro, declared him the winner with nearly 52 percent of the vote to Gonzalez’s 43 percent. Yet a week after the election, the council has yet to deliver polling station-level results to back up the claim, as required by Venezuelan law.
The opposition has published its own results, compiled with the help of thousands of volunteer observers who collected and scanned the tally sheets printed by electronic voting machines on election day at every polling station in the country.
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