The CEO of a voting technology company said on Wednesday that the results of a recent election in Venezuela were off by at least 1 million votes, confirming the suspicions of some opposition figures that the tallies were inflated.
Antonio Mugica, the CEO of Smartmatic, a company that provides electronic voting systems intended to make elections easier to audit, said ‘without any doubt’ the official tallies reported by Venezuela’s National Electoral Council were much greater than those recorded by the Smartmatic’s voting system.
‘Even in moments of deep political conflict and division we have been satisfied with the voting process and the count has been completely accurate,’ Mugica told reporters. ‘It is, therefore, with the deepest regret that we have to report that the turnout figures on Sunday, 30 July, for the Constituent Assembly in Venezuela were tampered with.’
The vote, held over the weekend, came after years of political turmoil in Venezuela, largely related to the presidency of Nicolas Maduro and a constitutional crisis his socialist government has brought about. In October of last year, the Venezuelan National Electoral Council canceled a referendum intended to remove Maduro from office, prompting a massive opposition march through the streets of Caracas in protest of the decision.
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on AUGUST 3, 2017.
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