Carter Center unable to verify Venezuela election results, blasts officials for lack of transparency

[muriel_volestrangler]

The Carter Center said it was unable to verify the results of Venezuela's presidential election, blaming authorities for a “complete lack of transparency” in declaring Nicolas Maduro the winner without providing any individual polling tallies.

The statement Tuesday night by the Atlanta-based group is perhaps the harshest rebuke yet of Venezuela's chaotic election process because it comes from one of just a handful of outside groups invited by the Maduro government to observe the vote.

“The electoral authority’s failure to announce disaggregated results by polling station constitutes a serious breach of electoral principles,” the Carter Center said. The group, which had a technical mission of 17 experts spread out in four cities across Venezuela, added that the election did not meet international standards and “cannot be considered democratic.”
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The electoral council has not released any results from the polling center level, which come from tally sheets that the more than 30,000 electronic voting machines print after polls close. It is not obligated to do so, but in previous elections it has posted the figures online within hours.

Biden and Lula “agreed on the need for immediate release of full, transparent, and detailed voting data at the polling station level by the Venezuelan electoral authorities,” it said.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/criticism-mounts-against-venezuelas-maduro-and-the-electoral-council-that-declared-him-a-victor/ar-BB1qTF9x

[GreenWave]

1. When you need a hit piece on Maduro, count on Vivian Sequera.

In one of her other articles, it states Maduro only got as low as 14% of the vote. Election denying is rampant.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/government-opposition-both-claim-venezuela-election-win-official-results-2024-07-29/

Independent exit polls pointed to 65% support for Gonzalez and between 14% and 31% backing for Maduro. Ludicrous.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. "one of her other articles"? The article I linked to is from AP, and Sequera doesn't feature

She works for Reuters.

[Marcus IM]

3. Maga would like to see a full count in 2 days here in America

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And if the US can't be fully transparent with every vote fully accounted and tabulated - then it should be accused of lack of transparency.

That's what maga sez.

What's good for the goose ...

Yes?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. No, not really.

As the article says, it hasn't taken days of delay before in Venezuela. And the Carter Center is a respectable elections observer, and is not happy - they've waited, but things still aren't happening. In the USA, the counts appear as they can.

It seems Maduro's government is blaming the delay on an "attack on the electrical grid", though I can't find anything else talking about that: (Bloomberg article, not behind a paywall) https://archive.ph/x4lCM

[Marcus IM]

5. Maga tactics thru and thru

You need an opposition decoder ring to see what the opposition wants you to see.

Which numbers have the opposition shared?

Opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Monday that González got more than 6.2 million votes and Maduro got more than 2.7 million votes.

Machado did not offer totals for the other eight candidates.

She said those numbers were based on a review of 73.2% of the tally sheets. She did not show any tally sheet but she directed voters to a website where they can use their ID number to look up an image of the sheet that corresponds to the machine where they voted.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/international-headlines/ap-little-known-paper-sheets-are-key-to-declaring-victory-in-venezuelas-election/

They are busy as bees in Doral.