Electoral Rector Delpino casts doubt on the hacking of Venezuela’s electoral system

The head of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), Juan Carlos Delpino, doubts that the electoral body’s system was hacked during the July 28 presidential election, as the institution claimed, attributing the delay in announcing the results to this “attack.”

“I have technical elements (…) and there is clear evidence that the hacking could never have occurred,” the official told Noticias Caracol, which published X videos of the interview on the social network on Friday.

According to a recent complaint by the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, the institution suffered “massive cyber attacks from different parts of the world” that “delayed the transmission of the minutes and the process of disclosing the results.”

Delpino said that the country is experiencing a “terrible situation of uncertainty” that was “not resolved” by the ruling of the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that confirmed the controversial reelection of Maduro, after a process of “validation” of the official results, which the CNE has not yet published in a disaggregated manner, as contemplated in its schedule.

According to the rector, the minutes that both the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – the main opposition coalition – claim to have in their possession should have been compared with those of the CNE and a “verification” should have been made.

“It was not done, it has not been done, and that has brought about this problem, that in Venezuela, even though there may have been an electoral result (…) we continue with uncertainty,” said Delpino, who claims to be “safe” outside the Caribbean nation.

||EFE