The Carter Center, an American organization that served as an election observer during the July 28 Venezuelan presidential election, presented original voting records to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday that would provide the victory for the opponent Edmundo González. Urrutia.
“It was sent to me by email, I will show it to you after this session so you can see it. These are original court records from Venezuela, with a meaningful QR code that allows witnesses from thousands and thousands of tables to systematically collect information,” said Carter Center Senior Advisor for Latin America , Jennie Lincoln, during an OAS session held in Washington.
González would have obtained 67% of the votes
The minutes reportedly show that the standard-bearer of Venezuela’s main opposition platform, Edmundo González Urrutia, won the election with 67% of the vote, while the current president, Nicolás Maduro, reportedly received 31%.
The National Electoral Council (CNE), however, claims that Maduro was re-elected in these elections, even if it has not published the minutes with the disaggregated results.
“The Venezuelan CNE’s lack of transparency and refusal to provide data from its machine tables and minutes to explain the declaration of a winner does not meet international standards,” Lincoln said during his speech.
During the same session, OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro said that “the electoral process was from the beginning one of the worst things that could be done.”
“As expected, it was neither free, nor fair, nor transparent. As expected, this was done for violation of signed agreements” and a fraudulent result was announced, Almagro said.
The Carter Center of the United States and a small delegation from the United Nations were the only ones able to bring independent electoral representation to observe the voting process of the July 28 Venezuelan elections.
The electoral body of Venezuela had granted the re-election of Maduro as head of state with 51.95% of the votes, against 43.18% of support obtained by González Urrutia, with 96.87% of the minutes examined.
