Venezuela: CNE Ratifies Maduro Victory, Supreme Court Demands Voting Records and Hacking Evidence

(Are we DDOSing the CNE website so they can't produce the specific tally results?)

from Venezuela Analysis

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) released a second bulletin on Friday confirming President Nicolás Maduro’s reelection amidst tensions and fraud claims.

With a reported 96.87 percent of voting centers tallied, the CNE had Maduro win July 28’s presidential election with 51.95 percent (6.4 million votes) compared to 43.18 percent (5.3 million votes) for opposition candidate Edmundo González. The margin between the two candidates increased marginally compared to the CNE’s first bulletin.

In a press conference, CNE President Elvis Amoroso stated that 12.3 out of 21.3 million voted on Sunday for a 59.97 percent turnout.

However, the electoral body did not release the results broken down by voting center on its website which remains out of service. CNE authorities have denounced an ongoing cyber attack that has delayed the vote-tallying and publishing operations. The magnitude of the issue has not been fully clarified.

For its part, Venezuela’s hardline opposition has rejected the official results and set up a parallel website purportedly including more than 80 percent of voting records from polling stations gathered by its electoral witnesses on Sunday.

These yet unverified electoral tallies reportedly grant González a landslide victory with more than 70 percent of the vote. 

National Assembly (AN) President Jorge Rodríguez said on Friday a “superficial analysis” of the opposition’s electoral evidence revealed several inconsistencies and claimed the materials were forged...

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