The Electoral Chamber of the TSJ, according to the newspaper Últimas Noticias, will carry out a “validation of the total number of minutes with the results existing in the database of the national totalization centers of the CNE, to certify the correspondence of the data of the minutes of scrutiny and those transmitted by the voting machines.”
The Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) reported on the progress of the “expertise” requested by the ruler Nicolás Maduro on the results of the presidential elections of July 28. According to the Judiciary, a “representative sample” of the minutes of the scrutiny delivered by the National Electoral Council (CNE) have been transcribed by its technical operators.
At the end of this process, magistrates Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez, Inocencio Figueroa and Fanny Márquez, accompanied by international electoral experts, went to the CNE to analyze the data and verify the numbers obtained by each of the 10 candidates and the thirty political organizations that nominated them in these elections.
According to the newspaper Latest News, This phase of the technical appraisal “will consist of validating the total number of vote counts with the results existing in the database of the CNE’s national aggregation centers, to certify the correspondence of the data in the vote counting records and those transmitted by the voting machines.”
📌 #NOW TSJ magistrates go to the CNE to validate the physical records against the records received by the national totalization centers on June 28. pic.twitter.com/TpwmWPHcVt
— Latest News (@UNews) August 18, 2024
On July 31, Maduro filed an electoral appeal before the Electoral Chamber of the TSJ for an “expertise of the results” of the presidential elections and verification of the “cyber attack” that, according to the CNE, affected the process of transmitting the total.
The CNE’s announcement, which ratified Maduro as the winner, unleashed a wave of protests throughout the country that resulted in more than 2,200 people arrested and 25 dead, according to authorities. Both María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia have demanded that the CNE publish the disaggregated results of the presidential elections, which include the minutes of the 30,026 voting tables.
Both opposition leaders say that, according to more than 80% of the voting records in their possession, González won by a wide margin against Maduro. Part of the international community has joined the request for the CNE to show the results table by table.
On the side of the TSJ, the candidates were called to hand over all the “electoral documents in their possession” in a series of hearings. The representatives of Un Nuevo Tiempo, Mesa de la Unidad Democrática and Movimiento por Venezuela, the alliance that nominated González Urrutia, as well as those of Centrados did not hand over the material.
Former candidate Enrique Márquez, supported by Centrados, filed a lawsuit on August 9 for a criminal investigation to the rectors of the CNE “for committing a crime” by not publishing all the results.
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