Carter Center confirms Gonzalez’s victory over Maduro

The Carter Center confirmed on Thursday, August 8, 2024, the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia (United Democratic Platform, center-right) over President Nicolás Maduro (United Socialist Parties of Venezuela, left). The organization said: Folha de S. Paulo That the National Electoral Council did not act independently during the elections.

The Carter Center’s position differs from the official figures released by Venezuela’s electoral authority, which gave Maduro a 51.95 percent win. The organization claims to have used data collected from electoral registers and sample ballots to verify the result, but has not disclosed the Chavez regime opponent’s supposed winning percentage.

Carter Center Election Analyst Ian Batista He criticized the lack of independence of the Venezuelan electoral authority.There are no institutions capable of balancing power.”Advertise.

After the elections held on July 28, the international organization withdraw Its employees are from Venezuela for reasons “protection”. The organization’s final report is still pending, but its preliminary data has already sparked reactions from the Maduro regime, which has accused the organization of bias.

The Carter Center also says it has identified numerous irregularities, such as the misuse of state resources to Maduro’s advantage and restrictions on voter registration. The performance of the National Electoral Council has also been called into question, as has the use of state propaganda in the campaign.

Minutes from Venezuela

In Venezuela, voters vote using electronic equipment, similar to that in Brazil. But unlike Brazil, in the Venezuelan system there is a vote that is printed and then deposited by the voter himself in a physical ballot box (closed next to the site).

At the end of voting, each electronic voting machine prints out an electoral register showing the result (the number of votes each candidate received in that machine), the number of blank votes, invalid votes and abstentions.

Ballots are sent electronically to the National Electoral Commission, and the transmission is done through an encrypted network and not over the Internet.

Copies of the document, printed by machine, are delivered to representatives of each Venezuelan party present at the polling place. Unlike in Brazil, the minutes are not posted on the door or on the bulletin board in the voting area to make the results more easily publicized. But political parties can freely publish these ballots.