'Zero error' in Venezuelan poll results [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

'Zero error' in Venezuelan poll results
Friday 17 May 2013

Venezuela's independent National Electoral Council has found "zero error" in presidential election results despite right-wing attempts to undermine Nicolas Maduro's victory. With 75 per cent of the vote now audited, the level of accuracy in the first set of results had hit 99.98 per cent, it announced today.

The audit came about after loser Henrique Capriles claimed fraud in the April presidential election that saw Mr Maduro elected as successor to the late Hugo Chavez. Mr Capriles asked for and accepted a process which will see 100 per cent of all the votes audited - but has since said he won't recognise the results of the audit.

Venezuela's ambassador to Britain Samuel Moncada said: "This audit once again underlines the robustness and accuracy of Venezuela's voting system.

"That is why Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter called Venezuela's electoral system the best in the world.

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