Capriles has alleged via Twitter there is a plan to “change” the country's election result

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10. Election Monitor Reports

Venezuela’s Presidential Elections 2013 Live Blog

Written by CEPR
Sunday, 14 April 2013



9:57 PM EDT: An election monitor in Caracas reports:

8:23 PM - Now watching the citizen audit at Fermin Toro, a high school in Caracas. There were 12 voting stations and the turnout was 73.3%. [4,773 out of a possible 6,465 voted].

After reading off all of the ballots and putting them in stacks they are counting each stack and comparing them with the number on the tape.



9:26 PM - The count matched perfectly.

The vote result announcement for the election is expected soon. Rumors are flying that Maduro won but that Capriles won't accept the results.

9:19 PM EDT: Although no results have been announced yet, opposition candidate Henrique Capriles is crying foul, according to Reuters, accusing the CNE of a plot to "change the will of the people." As we noted at the beginning of our blogging today, Capriles has expressed distrust in the CNE ahead of these elections even though he quickly accepted the election results when the CNE announced them in October.

9:09 PM EDT: It is looking increasingly likely that voter turnout today was indeed high, perhaps close to the levels seen in the October elections. Luis Vicente Leon of opposition polling firm Datanálisis has also said the shorter lines observed by many today may result from the quicker, more familiar voting process.


9:07 PM EDT: An election monitor in Maracaibo, Zulia reports:

7:36 PM EDT: At Colegio Santa Mariana de Jesus where there are 12 mesas. 4641 people had voted by 4 pm out of 6487 registered.

Four mesas were chosen for audit by picking numbers at random from a pile of folded numbers. I sat in the audit for Mesa 10. One person counted how many people signed the voter registration list and gave their finger print. Another person tallied how many people voted based on a print out from the voting machine. The two numbers of people must correspond to detect any fraud from people voting electronically without signing in. In mesa 10, the numbers matched.

7:55 PM EDT: We also watched while they counted all individual receipts deposited in ballot boxes to make sure they corresponded with the signed registration lists and the voter machine print outs. So far the numbers match.

There were 4986 votes out of 6487. 76.6% voter turnout.

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