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The aggregation of the vote counting records is one of the processes established in the General Regulations and the Organic Law of Electoral Processes (Lopre) that the National Electoral Council (CNE) must carry out when an electoral process is carried out.
The president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, reported in the early hours of July 29 that, according to 80% of the votes counted, Nicolás Maduro was the winner. elected as president of the Republic with 5,150,092 million votes, representing 51.20%. While Edmundo González obtained 4,445,978 million votes, for a total of 42.2%.
However, despite Amoroso’s statement that the results of the polling stations were going to be published on the electoral body’s website, the electoral body’s website is currently down. For this reason, the detailed results of the tally sheets of the electoral boards have not yet been made public.
According to article 146 of the Lopre, the electoral boards together with the National Electoral Board must carry out the totalization process within a period of 48 hours after the voting process.
“The National Electoral Board and the Electoral Boards, the latter under the supervision of the former, shall be obliged to carry out the aggregation process within 48 hours. In the event that the electoral boards have not carried out the aggregation within the stipulated period, the National Electoral Board may carry out the aggregation,” the law states.
What does the General Regulations of the Lopre say?
The General Regulations of the Lopre state that when the electoral process ends, the electoral boards have 48 hours to total the minutes and issue a final bulletin.
“The National Electoral Board may extend this period for up to twenty-four (24) more hours, for technical reasons or due to the existence of a number of missing records that could affect the final result,” says article 365 of this law.
According to the regulations, the automated counting records, the results of which cannot be transmitted from the polling stations or from the centres established for this purpose, will be entered manually into the Automated Totalisation System by the electoral boards, with prior authorisation from the National Electoral Board.
This is known as the contingency aggregation system and consists of incorporating the data from the counting records into the Automated Totalization System through the use of a removable memory.
“In the event that the removable memory does not work, the respective electoral board will inform the National Electoral Board, which, once it has verified the impossibility of incorporating the data automatically, will authorize the corresponding Electoral Board, as the case may be,” adds article 356 of the General Regulations of the Lopre.
However, Article 367 of the regulations stipulates that the National Electoral Board may total, award and proclaim the winning candidate in the following cases:
– Once the 48-hour period or 24-hour extension has expired without the totalization process having been completed.
– If the normal development of the act of totalization is affected by imminent danger or its completion is impossible.
– When the Automated Totalization System is not used.
“If technical failures occur that make it impossible to incorporate the contingency vote counting records or the automated vote counting records that were not transmitted to the automated totalization system through transcription, the National Electoral Board will determine the procedure that the members of the electoral boards must follow in order to guarantee the issuance of the corresponding totalization, adjudication and proclamation records,” adds Article 368.
Likewise, the General Regulations of the Lopre clarify that the partial totalization bulletin issued by the Automated Totalization System must reflect a partial report of the election results. This bulletin must also include the list of counted minutes and missing minutes from the total of minutes that have not yet been integrated into the Automated Totalization System.
Since the CNE has not published the results of the presidential elections of July 28, table by table, the opposition leader María Corina Machado made available to citizens a web portal where they can verify the content of the minutes of the scrutiny of the more than 30,000 polling stations set up by the electoral body.
As of the evening of July 30, Machado said that the Comando Con Venezuela had more than 80% of the votes issued by the electoral tables. According to this information, she stated that the opposition candidate Edmundo González was elected as president of the Republic.
The Carter Center called the election “undemocratic”
The Carter Center, which participated as an observer in the Venezuelan presidential elections, stated on Tuesday, July 30, that the process “did not conform” to the international parameters and standards of electoral integrity, and therefore “cannot be considered democratic.”
“The Carter Center cannot verify or corroborate the authenticity of the presidential election results declared by the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela,” the organization said in a statement.
He also stressed that the electoral body, which declared the official candidate Nicolás Maduro the winner with more than two million votes still to be counted, has not announced the results broken down by polling station, which “constitutes a serious violation of electoral principles.”
He explained that the electoral process “has not met international standards of integrity at any of its relevant stages and has violated numerous precepts of national legislation.”
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2024-08-01 05:35:36
