Venezuelan state-run media demean opposition primaries

[joshcryer]

2. All elections in Venezuela are overseen by the *government run* CNE.

The Consejo Nacional Electoral or the "National Electoral Council." By demeaning the turnout they are, in effect, looking rather stupid.

The Chavista's cannot win this argument with their madness, if they say it was a conspiracy, then they have admitted a failure in the CNE, if they accept the results, then they just had a major, massive blowout in electoral opinion. Why they are going with this is beyond my understanding, the public has to trust in the CNE to get accurate results, if it does not, then how can they trust their own democracy?

The only thing I can think of is that they're looking to steal the elections in the future and therefore are trying to delegitimize the CNE in the event the results are not what they want.