CARACAS.- In Venezuela the electoral process law establishes a period of 48 hours after the conclusion of the voting process, which took place on June 28, to issue the final act of totalization that would allow the presidential proclamation, so if the National Electoral Council (CNE) attempted to present the minutes publicly would incur in another fraudulent act in the electionsaccording to experts.
The CNE proclaimed and awarded dictator Nicolás Maduro the majority of votes to remain in power without having carried out the total or published the results of the voting, table by table, which give the victory to Edmundo González, as president-elect, according to 73.2% of the minutes in possession of the opposition.
Nor would the CNE board have approved the proclamation, as established by law, for the act to be valid.
And on the night of July 30, former Vice President of Colombia, Francisco Santos, warned on social media that “in the CNE warehouses in Filas de Mariche,” in the state of Miranda, in northern Venezuela, “there is a team of 150 employees of the Venezuelan electoral body, all supervised by a group of 4 Chinese engineers (manufacturers of the machines), to print all the new records and present them to international observers before Friday, August 2.”
Santos, who said he had confirmed the information, said that “the Chinese arrived from the situation room in Cuba” in the early hours of Wednesday 31J, “on board a Conviasa flight.” The arrival of planes from Cuba to Venezuela was reported by THE AMERICAS DAILY.
In his message, he added that the CNE’s principal rector, Carlos Quintero, “supervises them together with the organization’s technology director.”
Another fraud scheme?
The 48-hour period for vote aggregation expired at 6:00 p.m. on July 30, 2024, without the CNE having completed the aggregation phase, which as such, requires the corresponding final aggregation report or bulletin, explains Professor José Ignacio Hernández, in a legal guide that he publishes on his networks to explain that “there is a constitutional vacuum.”
Without a total vote count, because the period has expired, there would also be no proclamation, the last step of the electoral process in which the CNE declares the winner of the election. According to this, the CNE has not proclaimed Maduro and the deadline to make that decision has already expired, from a constitutional perspective, the lawyer points out.
“Without the minutes of the vote count, there is no proclamation of the president.”
This could explain the CNE’s hasty maneuver, which Santos denounced.
Technical support in elections
Besides, “If they were being prepared, as Santos indicates, the CNE minutes would have a different hash and digital signature that would show that they do not correspond to the election, and they would not have the signatures of the witnesses and table members either,” explained journalist Eugenio Martínez, who specializes in electoral issues.
“These records would not match those posted by hundreds of people on social media either. But let’s suppose that the CNE manages to replicate all of that (hash, digital signature, witness signatures), how do we know that the record is true? The receipts are counted,” he stated on his social networks.
Martínez recalled that the original voting records, a true copy of which is in the hands of the opposition, “are in the possession of Plan República, which is in charge of collecting the electoral material.”
“Incidentally, the CNE could have asked the government to make better use of the VenAPP and enable a module for the Plan República to upload an image of the original vote counting record (so as not to have to wait for the material, which is when the material arrives at the CNE),” commented the journalist.
Source: With information from networks, Diario Las Américas