On Sunday, Venezuelans went to the polling stations despite living under an authoritarian regime that denies them free and fair elections. Millions of them voted for change, expressing their exhaustion with repression and the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Predictably, President Nicolás Maduro, through the National Electoral Council (CNE) he controls, declared himself the winner with 51 percent of the vote.
The CNE’s assertion that Maduro won the vote is a fabrication. Edison Research exit polls aligned with the results published by the opposition, which claimed that over 70 percent of Venezuelans voted for its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia. Moreover, the opposition, having anticipated electoral fraud, meticulously verified the results using an open-source modeling protocol, demonstrating that González Urrutia had indeed secured over 70 percent of the vote. Consequently, numerous governments have condemned the election as rigged, demanding Maduro provide evidence of his alleged victory.
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