- According to reports documented by the team of The newspaper, Most people have decided to exercise their right to vote out of a “need for change”
Fulfilling the commitment as a citizen and the hope for a “better country” motivated Venezuelans to stay overnight at polling stations, starting on the night of Saturday, July 27 and until the early hours of Sunday, July 28, to be able to vote in the presidential elections.
“We must take back our country”
Yolanda Ramírez, 80 years old, asked Venezuelans to go out and vote because she believes it is the only way to recover the country.
“There are many people here who have children and grandchildren. Think about the future we want to leave them. Come and vote,” Ramírez told the team. The newspaper from Caracas.
“Voting is my right and my duty”
Morella Alvarado, 59 years old, believes she did her part by going out to vote because she believes it is her duty and her right as a citizen.
The citizen said she felt the responsibility of voting to choose a future that she wants for herself and her family. In her testimony, she revealed that she was able to sleep very little because she felt so anxious.
“Come vote,” Alvarado said. The newspaper from the parish of San Pedro de Los Chaguaramos (Caracas).
“If you are a senior citizen, the process is even faster”
Victor Maldonado, 60 years old and a voter in the La Candelaria parish, and Gilberto Ganado, 76 years old and a voter in San José, both in Caracas, agreed that the process for senior citizens is quite fluid and they had no setbacks in exercising their right to vote.
Both people said that the logistics of the day have meant that grandparents do not have to wait for several hours to go to the polls. They said that there is a preferential line that makes the process easier.
For his part, Franklyn Tonito, 69 years old, arrived at the Agustín Aveledo high school in La Pastora at 6:00 am and commented that there had been good organization.
“They are serving people very well, there are two queues, one is for the elderly. The queue is moving normally, without any irregularities,” said Tonito.
A monitoring carried out by The newspaper It also confirmed that queues for senior citizens have been respected in several regions of the country. Preferential queues allow citizens to exercise their right to vote and, if they wish, they can request the figure of assisted votingwhich authorizes a person, and then cannot assist any other person, when entering the room.
“Voting is one of the few things we can do to express our desire for change”
Alejandro Landaeta, a voter from Colegio Mater Dei, in the Los Salias municipality in Miranda, encouraged young people to vote on Sunday, July 28.
“Coming to exercise your right is also a duty, taking control of our destiny as a country. It is not a matter of thinking about it too much and simply going to your polling station,” Landaeta said. The newspaper.
Other testimonies
Valentina Martinez detailed for The newspaper at the Padre Madariaga School polling station in Altagracia (Caracas), which opened at 6:20 am at the Padre Madariaga School in Altagracia (their polling station), but the process began “a little slow” because there was no organization at first.
José Velásquez, 20 years old, arrived early at the polling station at the República de Bolivia school in La Pastora. He said there was “disorder” at the polling station before 6:00 am because the distribution of the tables was unknown. Later, the members of the table and the Plan República organized the voters in their rows.
At the voting center of the Simón Rodríguez Public Library in the Cathedral parish in Caracas, no incident reports had been filed as of 8:00 am.
Joseph Hernandez, coordinator of the electoral center, told The newspaper that in this precinct there are 2,086 registered voters.
At the Santa Bárbara Private Educational Unit, located in the Altagracia parish, Breiner López arrived at the polling station at 7:30 am and went to vote preferentially because he had recently had knee surgery. He explained that the process was simple and the staff was friendly.
Channels to report a violation of electoral regulations
The non-governmental organization (NGO) Toma el Control, which encourages voting in Venezuela, announced the Creation of a chatbot to report any violation of electoral rules.
The NGO Transparencia Venezuela also has an app (Say Here) and a WhatsApp channel to receive complaints of electoral irregularities or crimes.
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2024-07-28 20:05:14
