The Chavistas committed wholesale fraud. More proof.
How Hundreds of Mysterious Votes Flipped a Venezuelan Election
Evidence indicates fraud in a state election won by a government candidate, as President Maduro tightens control over institutions.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
Updated Nov. 2, 2017 2:35 p.m. ET
EL CASABE, Venezuela—Aires Pérez Rodríguez traveled by canoe for three hours to deliver the paper receipts showing a total of 225 votes cast for state governor in this hamlet. Then he passed them to his aunt, who drove them a further 150 miles to the Bolívar state capital.
When the official count was released days after the Oct. 15 election, however,
there were an extra 471 votes for the government’s candidate. It wasn’t just Mr. Pérez, the opposition party’s election monitor, who noticed. The ruling Socialist Party’s own election supervisor admitted as much.
‘This is illegal,’ said Luciano Mendoza, the election supervisor, who showed The Wall Street Journal the voting-machine receipts that counted just a third as many votes from the hamlet as reported by electoral authorities later. ‘They say they bring justice, but instead they commit fraud.’
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Most of El Casabe’s 800 registered voters work at remote illegal gold mines, leaving only a fraction of potential voters scattered across a few dozen riverside wooden huts on election day last month, dozens of residents said in interviews. That made Gen. Noguera’s 667 votes on
a record 85% turnout unlikely.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-venezuela-fell-victim-to-clear-manipulation-in-election-1509615002
They are so brazen, they aren't even trying to hide it anymore.
